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    The surname Scates

    A surname, carried by 2,271 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S320

    Scates: #13,418 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scates #13,418, 2,271 people Scates: #13,418 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scates #13,418, 2,271 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scates is more common than 91.7% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,271 people named Scates in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 135,951 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,283.

    #13,418
    rank among US surnames
    2,271
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #12,471)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,413Weingarten2,272135,892
    #13,418Presson2,271135,951
    #13,427Legere2,270136,011

    Who is named Scates

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

    75% of people named Scates identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • 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 Scates

    Scates has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Scates?
    2,271 people in the United States had the surname Scates in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 135,951 Americans. It ranked 13,418th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Scates?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Scates identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Scates getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,283 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,271 in 2010, down 0.5%.