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    The surname Sleight

    A surname, carried by 1,093 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S423

    Sleight: #23,300 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sleight #23,300, 1,093 people Sleight: #23,300 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sleight #23,300, 1,093 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sleight is more common than 85.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,093 people named Sleight in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 282,475 Americans. That is down 8.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,200.

    #23,300
    rank among US surnames
    1,093
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8.9%
    change since 2000 (was #20,543)

    Who is named Sleight

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

    96% of people named Sleight identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    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 Sleight

    Sleight has the Soundex code S423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S423.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sleight?
    1,093 people in the United States had the surname Sleight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 282,475 Americans. It ranked 23,300th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sleight?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sleight identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sleight getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,200 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,093 in 2010, down 8.9%.