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    The surname Sain

    A surname, carried by 4,675 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S500

    Sain: #7,155 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sain #7,155, 4,675 people Sain: #7,155 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sain #7,155, 4,675 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sain is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,675 people named Sain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,042 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,402.

    #7,155
    rank among US surnames
    4,675
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,019)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,148Toribio4,67965,985
    #7,151Barta4,67865,999
    #7,153Bang4,67666,028
    #7,155Sain4,67566,042
    #7,157Enciso4,67466,056
    #7,160Nasser4,67366,070
    #7,162Marcial4,67066,113

    Who is named Sain

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

    70% of people named Sain identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 5.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sain

    Sain has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sain?
    4,675 people in the United States had the surname Sain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,042 Americans. It ranked 7,155th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sain?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Sain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sain getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,402 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,675 in 2010, up 6.2%.