How common is the surname Oates?

12,202 people in the United States had the surname Oates in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,303 Americans. It ranked 2,940th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Oates?

Oates is /oʊts/, one syllable.

Is the surname Oates getting more or less common?

More common. 11,346 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,202 in 2010, up 7.5%.

The surname Oates

A surname, carried by 12,202 people in the United States.

Pronounced /oʊts/ 1 syllable Soundex O320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Oates is more common than 98.2% of them.

Origin

* As an English and Irish surname of Norman origin, from Old Norman Ode, Odes, from the Germanic name Audo, shortened from compound names containing the element *aud (“wealth”). See also Ott. * As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Cuirc or Mac Cuirc and mistakenly associated with coirce (“oats”). See Quirk.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 12,202 people named Oates in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 25,303 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,346.

#2,940

rank among US surnames

12,202

people in 2010

4.1

per 100,000 Americans

+7.5%

change since 2000 (was #2,914)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,931	Loya	12,232	25,241
#2,932	Ragsdale	12,227	25,251
#2,933	Mace	12,222	25,261
#2,934	Brubaker	12,218	25,270
#2,936	Curley	12,211	25,284
#2,937	Graber	12,204	25,299
#2,939	Farnsworth	12,203	25,301

Who is named Oates

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

61% of people named Oates identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 61%
Black (not Hispanic) 34%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Oatis

Surnames that sound like Oates

Oats

Oates has the Soundex code O320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O320.

Questions

Where does the surname Oates come from?: * As an English and Irish surname of Norman origin, from Old Norman Ode, Odes, from the Germanic name Audo, shortened from compound names containing the element *aud (“wealth”). See also Ott. * As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Cuirc or Mac Cuirc and mistakenly associated with coirce (“oats”).…
How common is the surname Oates?: 12,202 people in the United States had the surname Oates in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,303 Americans. It ranked 2,940th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Oates?: In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Oates identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Oates?: Oates is /oʊts/, one syllable.
Is the surname Oates getting more or less common?: More common. 11,346 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,202 in 2010, up 7.5%.
What are other spellings of Oates?: Oatis.