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    The surname Saye

    A surname, carried by 1,163 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S000

    Saye: #22,194 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Saye #22,194, 1,163 people Saye: #22,194 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Saye #22,194, 1,163 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Saye is more common than 86.3% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Say.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,163 people named Saye in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,473 Americans. That is up 9.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,066.

    #22,194
    rank among US surnames
    1,163
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.1%
    change since 2000 (was #22,521)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #22,194Ramanathan1,163265,473
    #22,201Janak1,162265,702

    Who is named Saye

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

    82% of people named Saye identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Saye

    Saye 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 Saye come from?
    Variant of Say.
    How common is the surname Saye?
    1,163 people in the United States had the surname Saye in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,473 Americans. It ranked 22,194th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Saye?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Saye identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Saye getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,066 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,163 in 2010, up 9.1%.