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    The surname Skeete

    A surname, carried by 1,116 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S300

    Skeete: #22,924 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Skeete #22,924, 1,116 people Skeete: #22,924 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Skeete #22,924, 1,116 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Skeete is more common than 85.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,116 people named Skeete in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,654 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 953.

    #22,924
    rank among US surnames
    1,116
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.1%
    change since 2000 (was #24,584)

    Who is named Skeete

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

    79% of people named Skeete identified as Black (not Hispanic), 11% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 79%
    • White (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.8%
    • Two or more races 3.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Skeete

    Skeete has the Soundex code S300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Skeete?
    1,116 people in the United States had the surname Skeete in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,654 Americans. It ranked 22,924th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Skeete?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Skeete identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 11% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Skeete getting more or less common?
    More common. 953 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,116 in 2010, up 17%.