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    The surname Nobles

    A surname, carried by 12,965 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N142

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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). Nobles is more common than 98.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 12,965 people named Nobles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 23,814 Americans. That is up 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 12,149.

    #2,782
    rank among US surnames
    12,965
    people in 2010
    4.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.7%
    change since 2000 (was #2,724)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,773Schell13,01623,720
    #2,774Devlin13,01423,724
    #2,775Woo13,00323,744
    #2,776Steen12,98923,770
    #2,777Leggett12,97723,792
    #2,778Girard12,97523,795
    #2,779Su12,97323,799

    Who is named Nobles

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

    64% of people named Nobles identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 64%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Nobles

    Nobles has the Soundex code N142, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N142.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Nobles?
    12,965 people in the United States had the surname Nobles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,814 Americans. It ranked 2,782nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nobles?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Nobles identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Nobles getting more or less common?
    More common. 12,149 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,965 in 2010, up 6.7%.