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The surname Serafin

A surname, carried by 4,641 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S615

Serafin: #7,200 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Serafin #7,200, 4,641 people Serafin: #7,200 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Serafin #7,200, 4,641 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Serafin is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,641 people named Serafin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,526 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,181.

#7,200
rank among US surnames
4,641
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+11%
change since 2000 (was #7,340)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,195Winchell4,64466,483
#7,198Middlebrooks4,64366,497
#7,199Tristan4,64266,511
#7,200Serafin4,64166,526
#7,201Tryon4,63866,569

Who is named Serafin

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

62% of people named Serafin identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

  • White (not Hispanic) 62%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 35%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
  • Two or more races 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Serafin

Serafin has the Soundex code S615, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S615.

Questions

How common is the surname Serafin?
4,641 people in the United States had the surname Serafin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,526 Americans. It ranked 7,200th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Serafin?
In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Serafin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Serafin getting more or less common?
More common. 4,181 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,641 in 2010, up 11%.