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    The surname Searles

    A surname, carried by 6,178 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S642

    Searles: #5,627 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Searles #5,627, 6,178 people Searles: #5,627 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Searles #5,627, 6,178 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Searles is more common than 96.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,178 people named Searles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,975 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,970.

    #5,627
    rank among US surnames
    6,178
    people in 2010
    2.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #5,367)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,622Geisler6,18549,918
    #5,623Hershey6,18249,943
    #5,624Nolte6,18049,959
    #5,627Searles6,17849,975
    #5,628Word6,17749,983
    #5,629Stumpf6,17350,015

    Who is named Searles

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

    79% of people named Searles identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Searles

    Searles has the Soundex code S642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S642.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Searles?
    6,178 people in the United States had the surname Searles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,975 Americans. It ranked 5,627th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Searles?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Searles identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Searles getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,970 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,178 in 2010, up 3.5%.