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    The surname Slight

    An English nickname surname, carried by 405 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S423

    Slight: #51,396 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Slight #51,396, 405 people Slight: #51,396 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Slight #51,396, 405 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Slight is more common than 68.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Scottish surname from Middle English slight (“smooth; slim, slender, skinny”), a nickname for a slim or skinny person.

    Slight is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 405 people named Slight in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 762,335 Americans. That is down 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 441.

    #51,396
    rank among US surnames
    405
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8.2%
    change since 2000 (was #45,651)

    Who is named Slight

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

    86% of people named Slight identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Slight

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Slight come from?
    Scottish surname from Middle English slight (“smooth; slim, slender, skinny”), a nickname for a slim or skinny person.
    How common is the surname Slight?
    405 people in the United States had the surname Slight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 762,335 Americans. It ranked 51,396th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Slight?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Slight identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Slight?
    Slight is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Slight getting more or less common?
    Less common. 441 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 405 in 2010, down 8.2%.