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    The surname Summerlin

    A surname, carried by 4,824 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S564

    Summerlin: #6,954 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Summerlin #6,954, 4,824 people Summerlin: #6,954 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Summerlin #6,954, 4,824 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Summerlin is more common than 95.7% of them.

    Origin

    Unexplained.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,824 people named Summerlin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,002 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,609.

    #6,954
    rank among US surnames
    4,824
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,740)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,948Nez4,82763,962
    #6,949Nay4,82663,975
    #6,952Hinrichs4,82563,989
    #6,954Summerlin4,82464,002
    #6,955Bly4,82364,015
    #6,956Waltman4,82264,029

    Who is named Summerlin

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

    86% of people named Summerlin identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.9%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Sumerlin

    Surnames that sound like Summerlin

    Summerlin has the Soundex code S564, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S564.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Summerlin come from?
    Unexplained.
    How common is the surname Summerlin?
    4,824 people in the United States had the surname Summerlin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,002 Americans. It ranked 6,954th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Summerlin?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Summerlin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Summerlin getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,609 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,824 in 2010, up 4.7%.
    What are other spellings of Summerlin?
    Sumerlin.