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The surname Haygood

A surname, carried by 4,536 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H230

Haygood: #7,347 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Haygood #7,347, 4,536 people Haygood: #7,347 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Haygood #7,347, 4,536 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Haygood is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,536 people named Haygood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,066 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,257.

#7,347
rank among US surnames
4,536
people in 2010
1.5
per 100,000 Americans
+6.6%
change since 2000 (was #7,228)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,343Surratt4,53968,021
#7,344Boldt4,53868,036
#7,345Gendron4,53768,051
#7,347Haygood4,53668,066

Who is named Haygood

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

59% of people named Haygood identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 59%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 35%
  • Two or more races 2.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Haygood

Haygood has the Soundex code H230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H230.

Questions

How common is the surname Haygood?
4,536 people in the United States had the surname Haygood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,066 Americans. It ranked 7,347th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Haygood?
In the 2010 Census, 59% of people named Haygood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Haygood getting more or less common?
More common. 4,257 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,536 in 2010, up 6.6%.