The surname Pusey
An English place surname, carried by 2,127 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P200
Origin
English origin
From Old English pisa (“pea”) + īeġ (“island”).
Pusey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,127 people named Pusey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 145,155 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,060.
Who is named Pusey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
70% of people named Pusey identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 70%
- Black (not Hispanic) 25%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Pusey
Pusey has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Pusey come from?
- From Old English pisa (“pea”) + īeġ (“island”).
- How common is the surname Pusey?
- 2,127 people in the United States had the surname Pusey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,155 Americans. It ranked 14,127th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pusey?
- In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Pusey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Pusey?
- Pusey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Pusey getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,127 in 2010, up 3.3%.