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    The surname Sawh

    A surname, carried by 544 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S000

    Sawh: #40,261 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sawh #40,261, 544 people Sawh: #40,261 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sawh #40,261, 544 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sawh is more common than 75.2% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Saw; this variant is found mainly in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, but it's not used in India.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 544 people named Sawh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 567,547 Americans. That is up 50% since 2000, when the Census counted 364.

    #40,261
    rank among US surnames
    544
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +49.5%
    change since 2000 (was #53,299)

    Who is named Sawh

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

    53% of people named Sawh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 10% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 53%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • White (not Hispanic) 10%
    • Two or more races 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sawh

    Sawh has the Soundex code S000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sawh come from?
    Variant of Saw; this variant is found mainly in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, but it's not used in India.
    How common is the surname Sawh?
    544 people in the United States had the surname Sawh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 567,547 Americans. It ranked 40,261st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sawh?
    In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Sawh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sawh getting more or less common?
    More common. 364 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 544 in 2010, up 50%.