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    The surname Neat

    An English occupational surname, carried by 540 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex N300

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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). Neat is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    English metonymic occupational surname for a herdsman or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox or a cow, from Middle English neat (“ox, cow”), from Old English neat.

    Neat is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 540 people named Neat in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 571,751 Americans. That is up 7.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 503.

    #40,494
    rank among US surnames
    540
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.4%
    change since 2000 (was #40,908)

    Who is named Neat

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

    79% of people named Neat identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Neat

    Neat has the Soundex code N300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N300.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Neat come from?
    English metonymic occupational surname for a herdsman or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox or a cow, from Middle English neat (“ox, cow”), from Old English neat.
    How common is the surname Neat?
    540 people in the United States had the surname Neat in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 571,751 Americans. It ranked 40,494th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Neat?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Neat identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Neat?
    Neat is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Neat getting more or less common?
    More common. 503 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 540 in 2010, up 7.4%.