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    The surname Seymore

    A surname, carried by 4,474 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S560

    Seymore: #7,445 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Seymore #7,445, 4,474 people Seymore: #7,445 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Seymore #7,445, 4,474 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seymore is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,474 people named Seymore in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,009 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,370.

    #7,445
    rank among US surnames
    4,474
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #7,056)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,437Deel4,47868,947
    #7,441Warrington4,47768,963
    #7,443Behm4,47668,978
    #7,445Seymore4,47469,009
    #7,446Topete4,47369,024
    #7,450Balch4,47269,040
    #7,453Deen4,47169,055

    Who is named Seymore

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

    50% of people named Seymore identified as white (not Hispanic), 44% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 50%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 44%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Seymore

    Seymore has the Soundex code S560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S560.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Seymore?
    4,474 people in the United States had the surname Seymore in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,009 Americans. It ranked 7,445th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seymore?
    In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Seymore identified as white (not Hispanic), and 44% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Seymore getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,370 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,474 in 2010, up 2.4%.