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    The surname Hail

    A surname, carried by 86,240 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H400

    Hail: #364 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hail #364, 86,240 people Hail: #364 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Hail #364, 86,240 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hail is more common than 99.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 86,240 people named Hail in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 3,580 Americans. That is up 2915% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,860.

    #364
    rank among US surnames
    86,240
    people in 2010
    29
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2915.4%
    change since 2000 (was #10,323)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #355Steele88,2303,499
    #356Vaughn88,0603,506
    #357Becker87,8593,514
    #358Holt87,5313,527
    #359Deleon87,4143,532
    #360Barker87,1623,542
    #361Terry87,0003,549

    Who is named Hail

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

    73% of people named Hail identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hail

    Hail has the Soundex code H400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hail?
    86,240 people in the United States had the surname Hail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,580 Americans. It ranked 364th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hail?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Hail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hail getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 86,240 in 2010, up 2915%.