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    The surname Single

    An English place surname, carried by 519 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S524

    Single: #41,886 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Single #41,886, 519 people Single: #41,886 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Single #41,886, 519 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Single is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English sengel (“brushwood; burnt clearing”), a topographic surname for someone who lived by a brushwood.

    Single is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 519 people named Single in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 601.

    #41,886
    rank among US surnames
    519
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -13.6%
    change since 2000 (was #35,445)

    Who is named Single

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

    88% of people named Single identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Single

    Single has the Soundex code S524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S524.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Single come from?
    From Old English sengel (“brushwood; burnt clearing”), a topographic surname for someone who lived by a brushwood.
    How common is the surname Single?
    519 people in the United States had the surname Single in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. It ranked 41,886th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Single?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Single identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Single?
    Single is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Single getting more or less common?
    Less common. 601 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 519 in 2010, down 14%.