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    The surname Suba

    A Cebuano surname, carried by 611 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S100

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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). Suba is more common than 77.5% of them.

    Origin

    Cebuano origin

    Various origins: * Borrowed from either Hungarian Suba or Czech Šuba. * Borrowed from Cebuano Suba, from suba (“river”).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 611 people named Suba in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 505,312 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 521.

    #36,585
    rank among US surnames
    611
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.3%
    change since 2000 (was #39,678)

    Who is named Suba

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

    55% of people named Suba identified as white (not Hispanic), 36% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 55%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 36%
    • Two or more races 4.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    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 Suba

    Suba has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Suba come from?
    Various origins: * Borrowed from either Hungarian Suba or Czech Šuba. * Borrowed from Cebuano Suba, from suba (“river”).
    How common is the surname Suba?
    611 people in the United States had the surname Suba in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 505,312 Americans. It ranked 36,585th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Suba?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Suba identified as white (not Hispanic), and 36% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Suba getting more or less common?
    More common. 521 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 611 in 2010, up 17%.