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    The surname Haile

    A surname, carried by 6,663 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H400

    Haile: #5,236 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Haile #5,236, 6,663 people Haile: #5,236 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Haile #5,236, 6,663 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Haile is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,663 people named Haile in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,337 Americans. That is up 42% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,701.

    #5,236
    rank among US surnames
    6,663
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +41.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,635)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,227Darr6,67746,240
    #5,228Dombrowski6,67646,247
    #5,229Marchese6,67046,289
    #5,230Lashley6,66946,296
    #5,231Towne6,66646,316
    #5,232Laurent6,66546,323
    #5,234Greenwald6,66446,330

    Who is named Haile

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

    52% of people named Haile identified as Black (not Hispanic), 42% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 52%
    • White (not Hispanic) 42%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Haile

    Haile 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 Haile?
    6,663 people in the United States had the surname Haile in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,337 Americans. It ranked 5,236th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Haile?
    In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Haile identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 42% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Haile getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,663 in 2010, up 42%.