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The surname Nunnery

A surname, carried by 2,775 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex N560

Nunnery: #11,368 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Nunnery #11,368, 2,775 people Nunnery: #11,368 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Nunnery #11,368, 2,775 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nunnery is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,775 people named Nunnery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,260 Americans. That is up 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,547.

#11,368
rank among US surnames
2,775
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+9%
change since 2000 (was #11,358)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,362Roussel2,777111,180
#11,365Cogar2,776111,220
#11,368Nunnery2,775111,260
#11,371MacIntyre2,774111,300
#11,374Gessner2,773111,340
#11,377Bornstein2,772111,380

Who is named Nunnery

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

68% of people named Nunnery identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 68%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 27%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Nunnery

Nunnery has the Soundex code N560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N560.

Questions

How common is the surname Nunnery?
2,775 people in the United States had the surname Nunnery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,260 Americans. It ranked 11,368th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Nunnery?
In the 2010 Census, 68% of people named Nunnery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Nunnery getting more or less common?
More common. 2,547 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,775 in 2010, up 9.0%.