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The surname Likes

A surname, carried by 1,154 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L220

Likes: #22,334 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Likes #22,334, 1,154 people Likes: #22,334 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Likes #22,334, 1,154 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Likes is more common than 86.2% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,154 people named Likes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,544 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,155.

#22,334
rank among US surnames
1,154
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-0.1%
change since 2000 (was #21,176)

Who is named Likes

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

94% of people named Likes identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Likes

Likes has the Soundex code L220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L220.

Questions

How common is the surname Likes?
1,154 people in the United States had the surname Likes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,544 Americans. It ranked 22,334th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Likes?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Likes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Likes getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,155 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,154 in 2010, down 0.1%.