How common is the surname Salyer?

6,926 people in the United States had the surname Salyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,578 Americans. It ranked 5,064th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Salyer?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Salyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Salyer getting more or less common?

More common. 6,861 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,926 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Salyer

A surname, carried by 6,926 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Salyer is more common than 96.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,926 people named Salyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,578 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,861.

#5,064

rank among US surnames

6,926

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #4,730)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,059	Siebert	6,932	44,539
#5,060	Buenrostro	6,931	44,546
#5,062	Haight	6,929	44,558
#5,064	Salyer	6,926	44,578

Who is named Salyer

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

95% of people named Salyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Salyer

Salyer 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 Salyer?: 6,926 people in the United States had the surname Salyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,578 Americans. It ranked 5,064th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Salyer?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Salyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Salyer getting more or less common?: More common. 6,861 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,926 in 2010, up 0.9%.