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    The surname Sloss

    A surname, carried by 1,568 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S420

    Sloss: #17,839 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sloss #17,839, 1,568 people Sloss: #17,839 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sloss #17,839, 1,568 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sloss is more common than 89% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,568 people named Sloss in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,904 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,494.

    #17,839
    rank among US surnames
    1,568
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #17,408)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,836Shover1,569196,779
    #17,839Gautam1,568196,904

    Who is named Sloss

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

    69% of people named Sloss identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.9%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sloss

    Sloss 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 Sloss?
    1,568 people in the United States had the surname Sloss in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,904 Americans. It ranked 17,839th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sloss?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Sloss identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sloss getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,494 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,568 in 2010, up 5.0%.