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    The surname Summerhays

    An English place surname, carried by 561 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S562

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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). Summerhays is more common than 75.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Probably a topographic surname from Middle English somer (“summer”) + heye (“enclosure, yard”).

    Summerhays is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 561 people named Summerhays in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 465.

    #39,212
    rank among US surnames
    561
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +20.6%
    change since 2000 (was #43,708)

    Who is named Summerhays

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

    94% of people named Summerhays identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    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

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    Surnames that sound like Summerhays

    Summerhays has the Soundex code S562, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S562.

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Summerhays come from?
    Probably a topographic surname from Middle English somer (“summer”) + heye (“enclosure, yard”).
    How common is the surname Summerhays?
    561 people in the United States had the surname Summerhays in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. It ranked 39,212th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Summerhays?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Summerhays identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Summerhays?
    Summerhays is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Summerhays getting more or less common?
    More common. 465 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 561 in 2010, up 21%.