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    The surname Simington

    A surname, carried by 1,219 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S552

    Simington: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Simington #21,439, 1,219 people Simington: #21,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Simington #21,439, 1,219 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Simington is more common than 86.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,219 people named Simington in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,083.

    #21,439
    rank among US surnames
    1,219
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,222)

    Who is named Simington

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

    63% of people named Simington identified as white (not Hispanic), 33% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 63%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 33%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Simington

    Simington has the Soundex code S552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S552.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Simington?
    1,219 people in the United States had the surname Simington in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,278 Americans. It ranked 21,439th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Simington?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Simington identified as white (not Hispanic), and 33% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Simington getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,219 in 2010, up 13%.