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    The surname Sligh

    A surname, carried by 1,745 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S420

    Sligh: #16,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sligh #16,470, 1,745 people Sligh: #16,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sligh #16,470, 1,745 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sligh is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,745 people named Sligh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,932 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,658.

    #16,470
    rank among US surnames
    1,745
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,057)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,462Cieslak1,746176,830
    #16,470Denker1,745176,932
    #16,475Lacher1,744177,033

    Who is named Sligh

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

    60% of people named Sligh identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 60%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 35%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    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 Sligh

    Sligh has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sligh?
    1,745 people in the United States had the surname Sligh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,932 Americans. It ranked 16,470th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sligh?
    In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Sligh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sligh getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,658 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,745 in 2010, up 5.2%.