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    The surname Sills

    A surname, carried by 6,761 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S420

    Sills: #5,171 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sills #5,171, 6,761 people Sills: #5,171 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sills #5,171, 6,761 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sills is more common than 96.8% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,761 people named Sills in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,666 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,729.

    #5,171
    rank among US surnames
    6,761
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,796)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,162Loftis6,77745,558
    #5,164Hulse6,77645,565
    #5,165Guarino6,77545,571
    #5,166Rickman6,77445,578
    #5,167Borrego6,77245,591
    #5,168Born6,77145,598
    #5,169Vaccaro6,76645,632

    Who is named Sills

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

    80% of people named Sills identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Sillss

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Beverly Sills
      American operatic soprano (1929-2007)
    • Milton Sills
      American stage and film actor (1882-1930)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sills

    Sills has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sills?
    6,761 people in the United States had the surname Sills in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,666 Americans. It ranked 5,171st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sills?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Sills identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Sills?
    Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (1929-2007), followed by Milton Sills.
    Where is the surname Sills most common?
    Wikidata records people named Sills in the United States.
    Is the surname Sills getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,729 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,761 in 2010, up 0.5%.