How common is the surname Livesay?

4,002 people in the United States had the surname Livesay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,148 Americans. It ranked 8,281st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Livesay?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Livesay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Livesay getting more or less common?

About as common. 4,001 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,002 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Livesay

A surname, carried by 4,002 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Livesay is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,002 people named Livesay in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 77,148 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,001.

#8,281

rank among US surnames

4,002

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #7,668)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,274	Hinojos	4,006	77,071
#8,277	Beadle	4,005	77,090
#8,280	Yusuf	4,003	77,129
#8,281	Wiser	4,002	77,148
#8,283	Obryant	4,001	77,167
#8,285	Kanter	4,000	77,186

Who is named Livesay

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

95% of people named Livesay identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
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 Livesay

Livesay has the Soundex code L120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L120.

Questions

How common is the surname Livesay?: 4,002 people in the United States had the surname Livesay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 77,148 Americans. It ranked 8,281st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Livesay?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Livesay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Livesay getting more or less common?: About as common. 4,001 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,002 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.