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    The surname Slay

    A surname, carried by 4,075 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S400

    Slay: #8,135 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Slay #8,135, 4,075 people Slay: #8,135 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Slay #8,135, 4,075 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Slay is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,075 people named Slay in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,766 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,937.

    #8,135
    rank among US surnames
    4,075
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #7,782)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,130Shuck4,07875,710
    #8,131Armentrout4,07775,729
    #8,133Rennie4,07675,747
    #8,135Slay4,07575,766

    Who is named Slay

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

    71% of people named Slay identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Slays

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Darius Slay
      American football player (born 1991)
    • Tamar Slay
      American basketball player (born 1980)
    • Francis G. Slay
      American politician, born 1955

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Slay

    Slay has the Soundex code S400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Slay?
    4,075 people in the United States had the surname Slay in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,766 Americans. It ranked 8,135th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Slay?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Slay identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Slay?
    Darius Slay, American football player (born 1991), followed by Tamar Slay.
    Where is the surname Slay most common?
    Wikidata records people named Slay in the United States.
    Is the surname Slay getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,937 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,075 in 2010, up 3.5%.