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The surname Sayegh

A surname, carried by 1,674 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S200

Sayegh: #16,975 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sayegh #16,975, 1,674 people Sayegh: #16,975 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sayegh #16,975, 1,674 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sayegh is more common than 89.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,674 people named Sayegh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 184,436 Americans. That is up 19% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,411.

#16,975
rank among US surnames
1,674
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+18.6%
change since 2000 (was #18,188)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,968Kintz1,675184,326
#16,975Vanvliet1,674184,436
#16,984Arita1,673184,546

Who is named Sayegh

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

90% of people named Sayegh identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as two or more races and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Two or more races 4.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sayegh

Sayegh has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

Questions

How common is the surname Sayegh?
1,674 people in the United States had the surname Sayegh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 184,436 Americans. It ranked 16,975th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sayegh?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sayegh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as two or more races.
Is the surname Sayegh getting more or less common?
More common. 1,411 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,674 in 2010, up 19%.