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    The surname Paradise

    A surname, carried by 4,170 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P632

    Paradise: #7,933 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Paradise #7,933, 4,170 people Paradise: #7,933 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Paradise #7,933, 4,170 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Paradise is more common than 95.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,170 people named Paradise in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,040 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,028.

    #7,933
    rank among US surnames
    4,170
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #7,609)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,928Barto4,17473,969
    #7,929Constant4,17373,986
    #7,932Basinger4,17174,022
    #7,933Desmarais4,17074,040

    Who is named Paradise

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

    90% of people named Paradise identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Paradise

    Paradise has the Soundex code P632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P632.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Paradise?
    4,170 people in the United States had the surname Paradise in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,040 Americans. It ranked 7,933rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Paradise?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Paradise identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Paradise getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,028 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,170 in 2010, up 3.5%.