How common is the surname Hulsey?

9,317 people in the United States had the surname Hulsey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,138 Americans. It ranked 3,796th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hulsey?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hulsey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hulsey getting more or less common?

More common. 9,152 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,317 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Hulsey

A surname, carried by 9,317 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hulsey is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,317 people named Hulsey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,138 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,152.

#3,796

rank among US surnames

9,317

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,563)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,787	Scholl	9,351	33,017
#3,788	Tarver	9,341	33,053
#3,789	Clough	9,339	33,060
#3,790	Hennessy	9,338	33,063
#3,791	Rosenbaum	9,333	33,081
#3,792	Stull	9,324	33,113
#3,793	Bolen	9,323	33,117

Who is named Hulsey

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

93% of people named Hulsey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
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 Hulsey

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

Questions

How common is the surname Hulsey?: 9,317 people in the United States had the surname Hulsey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,138 Americans. It ranked 3,796th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hulsey?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hulsey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hulsey getting more or less common?: More common. 9,152 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,317 in 2010, up 1.8%.