The surname Sones
A patronymic surname, carried by 1,319 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S520
Origin
Patronymic from Son.
Sones is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,319 people named Sones in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. That is down 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,413.
Who is named Sones
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Sones identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- Black (not Hispanic) 8.9%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Sones has the Soundex code S520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S520.
Questions
- Where does the surname Sones come from?
- Patronymic from Son.
- How common is the surname Sones?
- 1,319 people in the United States had the surname Sones in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,075 Americans. It ranked 20,201st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sones?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Sones identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Sones?
- Sones is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Sones getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,413 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,319 in 2010, down 6.7%.