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    The surname Summey

    A surname, carried by 2,281 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S500

    Summey: #13,360 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Summey #13,360, 2,281 people Summey: #13,360 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Summey #13,360, 2,281 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Summey is more common than 91.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,281 people named Summey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 135,355 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,217.

    #13,360
    rank among US surnames
    2,281
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.9%
    change since 2000 (was #12,773)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,356Forst2,283135,237
    #13,357Knobloch2,282135,296
    #13,360Degennaro2,281135,355
    #13,368Isler2,280135,415

    Who is named Summey

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

    88% of people named Summey identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.0%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • 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 Summey

    Summey has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Summey?
    2,281 people in the United States had the surname Summey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 135,355 Americans. It ranked 13,360th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Summey?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Summey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Summey getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,217 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,281 in 2010, up 2.9%.