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    The surname Sergent

    An occupational surname, carried by 2,957 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S625

    Sergent: #10,787 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sergent #10,787, 2,957 people Sergent: #10,787 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sergent #10,787, 2,957 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sergent is more common than 93.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname originating as an occupation for a servant.

    Sergent is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,957 people named Sergent in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,412 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,860.

    #10,787
    rank among US surnames
    2,957
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #10,323)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,779Collin2,959104,341
    #10,782Lama2,958104,376
    #10,787Sergent2,957104,412
    #10,790Beesley2,956104,447
    #10,792Turnbow2,955104,482
    #10,795Rothschild2,954104,518

    Who is named Sergent

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

    91% of people named Sergent identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    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 Sergent

    Sergent has the Soundex code S625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S625.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sergent?
    2,957 people in the United States had the surname Sergent in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,412 Americans. It ranked 10,787th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sergent?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sergent identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Sergent?
    Sergent is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Sergent getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,957 in 2010, up 3.4%.