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    The surname Guynn

    A surname, carried by 1,854 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G500

    Guynn: #15,727 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Guynn #15,727, 1,854 people Guynn: #15,727 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Guynn #15,727, 1,854 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Guynn is more common than 90.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,854 people named Guynn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 166,529 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,822.

    #15,727
    rank among US surnames
    1,854
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #14,898)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,719Broadhurst1,855166,440
    #15,727Youn1,854166,529
    #15,734Loew1,853166,619

    Who is named Guynn

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    87% of people named Guynn identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.8%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Guynn

    Guynn has the Soundex code G500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Guynn?
    1,854 people in the United States had the surname Guynn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 166,529 Americans. It ranked 15,727th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Guynn?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Guynn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Guynn getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,822 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,854 in 2010, up 1.8%.