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    The surname Sky

    A surname, carried by 513 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S000 Also a first name

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sky is more common than 73.9% of them.

    Origin

    From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 513 people named Sky in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 601,843 Americans. That is up 28% since 2000, when the Census counted 400.

    #42,308
    rank among US surnames
    513
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +28.2%
    change since 2000 (was #49,366)

    Who is named Sky

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

    76% of people named Sky identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
    • Two or more races 5.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 4.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 3.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sky

    Sky has the Soundex code S000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sky come from?
    From sky. As a surname, a translation of German Himmel and an anglicization of Ashkenazic surnames ending in -sky.
    How common is the surname Sky?
    513 people in the United States had the surname Sky in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 601,843 Americans. It ranked 42,308th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sky?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Sky identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sky getting more or less common?
    More common. 400 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 513 in 2010, up 28%.
    Is Sky also a first name?
    Yes. Sky is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.