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    The surname Searls

    A surname, carried by 1,612 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S642

    Searls: #17,481 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Searls #17,481, 1,612 people Searls: #17,481 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Searls #17,481, 1,612 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Searls is more common than 89.2% of them.

    Origin

    Variant spelling of Searles.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,612 people named Searls in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 191,529 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,526.

    #17,481
    rank among US surnames
    1,612
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #17,141)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,472Wisneski1,613191,411
    #17,481Searls1,612191,529

    Who is named Searls

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

    89% of people named Searls identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Searls

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Searls come from?
    Variant spelling of Searles.
    How common is the surname Searls?
    1,612 people in the United States had the surname Searls in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 191,529 Americans. It ranked 17,481st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Searls?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Searls identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Searls getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,526 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,612 in 2010, up 5.6%.