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    The surname Hughey

    A surname, carried by 6,830 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H200

    Hughey: #5,124 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hughey #5,124, 6,830 people Hughey: #5,124 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hughey #5,124, 6,830 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hughey 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 6,830 people named Hughey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,204 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,901.

    #5,124
    rank among US surnames
    6,830
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1%
    change since 2000 (was #4,696)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,116Dalrymple6,84345,118
    #5,117Bice6,84145,132
    #5,118Philips6,84045,138
    #5,119Yarborough6,83945,145
    #5,121Pounds6,83845,151
    #5,122Flagg6,83445,178
    #5,123Bonham6,83245,191

    Who is named Hughey

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

    74% of people named Hughey identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hughey

    Hughey has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hughey?
    6,830 people in the United States had the surname Hughey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,204 Americans. It ranked 5,124th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hughey?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Hughey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hughey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 6,901 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,830 in 2010, down 1.0%.