How common is the surname Sours?

1,952 people in the United States had the surname Sours in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 158,169 Americans. It ranked 15,117th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sours?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sours identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Sours getting more or less common?

More common. 1,870 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,952 in 2010, up 4.4%.

The surname Sours

A surname, carried by 1,952 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sours is more common than 90.7% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,952 people named Sours in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 158,169 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,870.

#15,117

rank among US surnames

1,952

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+4.4%

change since 2000 (was #14,599)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,117	Capo	1,952	158,169
#15,120	Fuhrmann	1,951	158,250
#15,124	Wipf	1,950	158,331

Who is named Sours

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

92% of people named Sours identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sours

Sours has the Soundex code S620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S620.

Questions

How common is the surname Sours?: 1,952 people in the United States had the surname Sours in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 158,169 Americans. It ranked 15,117th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sours?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sours identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Sours getting more or less common?: More common. 1,870 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,952 in 2010, up 4.4%.