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    The surname Hyre

    A surname, carried by 1,056 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hyre is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,056 people named Hyre in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 292,373 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 999.

    #23,899
    rank among US surnames
    1,056
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #23,657)

    Who is named Hyre

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

    95% of people named Hyre identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • 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 Hyre

    Hyre has the Soundex code H600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hyre?
    1,056 people in the United States had the surname Hyre in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 292,373 Americans. It ranked 23,899th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hyre?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hyre identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hyre getting more or less common?
    More common. 999 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,056 in 2010, up 5.7%.