The surname Selph
A surname, carried by 2,957 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S410
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,957 people named Selph in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,412 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,786.
#10,787
rank among US surnames
2,957
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+6.1%
change since 2000 (was #10,570)
Who is named Selph
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Selph identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.4%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Selph
Selph has the Soundex code S410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S410.
Questions
- How common is the surname Selph?
- 2,957 people in the United States had the surname Selph in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,412 Americans. It ranked 10,787th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Selph?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Selph identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Selph getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,786 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,957 in 2010, up 6.1%.