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The surname Saylors

A patronymic surname, carried by 1,804 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S462

Saylors: #16,060 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Saylors #16,060, 1,804 people Saylors: #16,060 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Saylors #16,060, 1,804 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Saylors is more common than 90.1% of them.

Origin

Patronymic or plural form of Saylor.

Saylors is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,804 people named Saylors in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,145 Americans. That is up 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,474.

#16,060
rank among US surnames
1,804
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+22.4%
change since 2000 (was #17,582)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,051Reisner1,806170,955
#16,059Hartig1,805171,050
#16,060Saylors1,804171,145
#16,064Ochsner1,803171,240

Who is named Saylors

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

95% of people named Saylors identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Saylors

Saylors has the Soundex code S462, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S462.

Questions

Where does the surname Saylors come from?
Patronymic or plural form of Saylor.
How common is the surname Saylors?
1,804 people in the United States had the surname Saylors in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,145 Americans. It ranked 16,060th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Saylors?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Saylors identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Saylors?
Saylors is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Saylors getting more or less common?
More common. 1,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,804 in 2010, up 22%.