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    The surname Jiles

    A surname, carried by 4,441 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex J420

    Jiles: #7,500 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Jiles #7,500, 4,441 people Jiles: #7,500 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Jiles #7,500, 4,441 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jiles is more common than 95.4% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,441 people named Jiles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,522 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,086.

    #7,500
    rank among US surnames
    4,441
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,515)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,494Hepler4,44569,459
    #7,496Vong4,44369,490
    #7,497Ressler4,44269,506
    #7,500Jiles4,44169,522
    #7,502Espiritu4,43869,569
    #7,504Cureton4,43769,584

    Who is named Jiles

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

    63% of people named Jiles identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 63%
    • White (not Hispanic) 30%
    • Two or more races 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Famous Jiless

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Pamela Jiles
      American sprinter, born 1955

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Jiles

    Jiles has the Soundex code J420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Jiles?
    4,441 people in the United States had the surname Jiles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,522 Americans. It ranked 7,500th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Jiles?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Jiles identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Jiles?
    Pamela Jiles, American sprinter.
    Where is the surname Jiles most common?
    Wikidata records people named Jiles in the United States.
    Is the surname Jiles getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,086 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,441 in 2010, up 8.7%.