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    The surname Seats

    A surname, carried by 1,078 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S320

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seats is more common than 85.5% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,078 people named Seats in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 286,406 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 976.

    #23,555
    rank among US surnames
    1,078
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.5%
    change since 2000 (was #24,115)

    Who is named Seats

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

    71% of people named Seats identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    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 Seats

    Seats 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 Seats?
    1,078 people in the United States had the surname Seats in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 286,406 Americans. It ranked 23,555th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seats?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Seats identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Seats getting more or less common?
    More common. 976 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,078 in 2010, up 11%.