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    The surname Squires

    A surname, carried by 14,045 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Squires is more common than 98.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 14,045 people named Squires in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 21,983 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 13,969.

    #2,574
    rank among US surnames
    14,045
    people in 2010
    4.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #2,380)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,565Kilpatrick14,08721,917
    #2,566Daigle14,08421,922
    #2,567Burdick14,08121,926
    #2,568Weathers14,07321,939
    #2,569Gavin14,06121,958
    #2,570Winslow14,05621,965
    #2,571Whitten14,05421,969

    Who is named Squires

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

    89% of people named Squires identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    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 Squires

    Squires 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 Squires?
    14,045 people in the United States had the surname Squires in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 21,983 Americans. It ranked 2,574th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Squires?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Squires identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Squires getting more or less common?
    More common. 13,969 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 14,045 in 2010, up 0.5%.