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The surname Holifield

A surname, carried by 4,104 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H414

Holifield: #8,076 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Holifield #8,076, 4,104 people Holifield: #8,076 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Holifield #8,076, 4,104 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holifield is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,104 people named Holifield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,230 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,079.

#8,076
rank among US surnames
4,104
people in 2010
1.4
per 100,000 Americans
+0.6%
change since 2000 (was #7,522)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,070Haider4,10775,175
#8,072McCarley4,10675,194
#8,073Kinley4,10575,212
#8,076Lovely4,10475,230
#8,080Carraway4,10375,249
#8,082Villavicencio4,10275,267

Who is named Holifield

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

68% of people named Holifield identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 68%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 28%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Holifield

Holifield has the Soundex code H414, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H414.

Questions

How common is the surname Holifield?
4,104 people in the United States had the surname Holifield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,230 Americans. It ranked 8,076th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holifield?
In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Holifield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Holifield getting more or less common?
More common. 4,079 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,104 in 2010, up 0.6%.