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    The surname Sailor

    A surname, carried by 2,412 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S460

    Sailor: #12,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sailor #12,789, 2,412 people Sailor: #12,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sailor #12,789, 2,412 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sailor is more common than 92.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,412 people named Sailor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 128,004 Americans. That is up 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,268.

    #12,789
    rank among US surnames
    2,412
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,533)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,782Garibaldi2,414127,898
    #12,785Klock2,413127,951
    #12,789Sailor2,412128,004
    #12,794Scalzo2,411128,057
    #12,795Schueller2,410128,110

    Who is named Sailor

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

    71% of people named Sailor identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sailor

    Sailor has the Soundex code S460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S460.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sailor?
    2,412 people in the United States had the surname Sailor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,004 Americans. It ranked 12,789th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sailor?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Sailor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sailor getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,268 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,412 in 2010, up 6.3%.