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    The surname Hiles

    A surname, carried by 3,962 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H420

    Hiles: #8,356 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hiles #8,356, 3,962 people Hiles: #8,356 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hiles #8,356, 3,962 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hiles is more common than 94.9% of them.

    Origin

    Unexplained.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,962 people named Hiles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,927 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,960.

    #8,356
    rank among US surnames
    3,962
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,736)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,348Jessop3,96577,868
    #8,350Despain3,96477,887
    #8,353Ambrosio3,96377,907
    #8,356Hiles3,96277,927
    #8,359Brunk3,96177,946
    #8,361Mounts3,96077,966
    #8,364Taliaferro3,95977,986

    Who is named Hiles

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

    89% of people named Hiles identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Hyles

    Surnames that sound like Hiles

    Hiles has the Soundex code H420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hiles come from?
    Unexplained.
    How common is the surname Hiles?
    3,962 people in the United States had the surname Hiles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,927 Americans. It ranked 8,356th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hiles?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Hiles identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hiles getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,960 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,962 in 2010, up 0.1%.
    What are other spellings of Hiles?
    Hyles.