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The surname Suits

A surname, carried by 1,882 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S320

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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). Suits is more common than 90.4% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,882 people named Suits in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 164,052 Americans. That is down 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,934.

#15,546
rank among US surnames
1,882
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
-2.7%
change since 2000 (was #14,236)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,541Pomerantz1,883163,965
#15,546Weldy1,882164,052
#15,551Buscher1,881164,139

Who is named Suits

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

96% of people named Suits identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Suits

Suits has the Soundex code S320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S320.

Questions

How common is the surname Suits?
1,882 people in the United States had the surname Suits in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 164,052 Americans. It ranked 15,546th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Suits?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Suits identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Suits getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,934 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,882 in 2010, down 2.7%.