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    The surname Strong

    A surname, carried by 45,432 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S365

    Strong: #760 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Strong #760, 45,432 people Strong: #760 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Strong #760, 45,432 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Strong is more common than 99.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 45,432 people named Strong in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 6,796 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 43,430.

    #760
    rank among US surnames
    45,432
    people in 2010
    15
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #718)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #751Cortes46,2296,679
    #752Shannon46,1476,690
    #753Kemp46,1466,691
    #754Nolan46,0546,704
    #755McCullough45,8526,734
    #756Merritt45,5946,772
    #757Murillo45,5586,777

    Who is named Strong

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

    67% of people named Strong identified as white (not Hispanic), 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 67%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Strong

    Strong has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Strong?
    45,432 people in the United States had the surname Strong in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 6,796 Americans. It ranked 760th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Strong?
    In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Strong identified as white (not Hispanic), and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Strong getting more or less common?
    More common. 43,430 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 45,432 in 2010, up 4.6%.