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    The surname Mode

    A surname, carried by 1,035 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M300

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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). Mode is more common than 85.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,035 people named Mode in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,020.

    #24,237
    rank among US surnames
    1,035
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #23,300)

    Who is named Mode

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

    85% of people named Mode identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mode

    Mode has the Soundex code M300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mode?
    1,035 people in the United States had the surname Mode in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 298,305 Americans. It ranked 24,237th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mode?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Mode identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mode getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,020 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,035 in 2010, up 1.5%.