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    The surname Secrest

    A surname, carried by 3,599 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S262

    Secrest: #9,081 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Secrest #9,081, 3,599 people Secrest: #9,081 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Secrest #9,081, 3,599 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Secrest is more common than 94.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,599 people named Secrest in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,786 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,427.

    #9,081
    rank among US surnames
    3,599
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,802)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,073Roan3,60385,691
    #9,074McElwee3,60285,715
    #9,080Bellows3,60185,739
    #9,081Lindahl3,59985,786
    #9,084Polo3,59885,810
    #9,085Varnado3,59785,834
    #9,088Whitesell3,59685,858

    Who is named Secrest

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

    91% of people named Secrest identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • 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 Secrest

    Secrest has the Soundex code S262, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S262.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Secrest?
    3,599 people in the United States had the surname Secrest in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,786 Americans. It ranked 9,081st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Secrest?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Secrest identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Secrest getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,427 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,599 in 2010, up 5.0%.