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    The surname Sales

    A Catalan surname, carried by 10,439 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sales is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    Catalan origin

    From Spanish, from Catalan sales.

    One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,439 people named Sales in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,576 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,725.

    #3,418
    rank among US surnames
    10,439
    people in 2010
    3.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +19.6%
    change since 2000 (was #3,733)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,409Ingle10,49729,413
    #3,412Olivo10,48329,452
    #3,413Winchester10,48029,460
    #3,414Judge10,45329,537
    #3,415Serrato10,44929,548
    #3,416Ambriz10,44529,559
    #3,417Gandy10,44429,562

    Who is named Sales

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

    39% of people named Sales identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 20% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 39%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 20%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 15%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Saless

    6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Soupy Sales
      American comedian, actor and radio/television personality (1926-2009)
    • Heitor de Araújo Sales
      Brazilian archbishop, born 1926
    • Hunt Sales
      American drummer, born 1954
    • Rubens Sales
      Brazilian association football player (1891-1934)
    • Thaila Ayala
      Brazilian actress, born 1986
    • Jucilene de Lima
      Brazilian female javelin throwers, born 1990

    Notable Saless come mostly from Brazil (4) and the United States (2).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sales

    Sales has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

    Other Catalan surnames

    All 39 Catalan surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sales come from?
    From Spanish, from Catalan sales.
    How common is the surname Sales?
    10,439 people in the United States had the surname Sales in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,576 Americans. It ranked 3,418th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sales?
    In the 2010 Census, 39% of people named Sales identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Sales?
    Soupy Sales, American comedian, actor and radio/television personality (1926-2009), followed by Heitor de Araújo Sales.
    Where is the surname Sales most common?
    Wikidata records people named Sales in Brazil and the United States.
    Is the surname Sales getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,725 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,439 in 2010, up 20%.