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The surname Paylor

A surname, carried by 1,504 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P460

Paylor: #18,411 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Paylor #18,411, 1,504 people Paylor: #18,411 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Paylor #18,411, 1,504 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Paylor is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,504 people named Paylor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,283 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,537.

#18,411
rank among US surnames
1,504
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-2.1%
change since 2000 (was #17,040)

Who is named Paylor

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

53% of people named Paylor identified as Black (not Hispanic), 42% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 53%
  • White (not Hispanic) 42%
  • Two or more races 2.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Paylor

Paylor has the Soundex code P460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P460.

Questions

How common is the surname Paylor?
1,504 people in the United States had the surname Paylor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,283 Americans. It ranked 18,411th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Paylor?
In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Paylor identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 42% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Paylor getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,504 in 2010, down 2.1%.