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    The surname Sevy

    A surname, carried by 1,093 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S100

    Sevy: #23,300 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sevy #23,300, 1,093 people Sevy: #23,300 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sevy #23,300, 1,093 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sevy is more common than 85.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,093 people named Sevy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 282,475 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,048.

    #23,300
    rank among US surnames
    1,093
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #22,821)

    Who is named Sevy

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

    94% of people named Sevy identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 Sevy

    Sevy has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sevy?
    1,093 people in the United States had the surname Sevy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 282,475 Americans. It ranked 23,300th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sevy?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sevy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sevy getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,048 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,093 in 2010, up 4.3%.