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    The surname Summit

    A surname, carried by 606 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S530

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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). Summit is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    Unknown origin for the surname. In place names, it usually represents a point of high elevation, perhaps the highest in the area.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 606 people named Summit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 509,481 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 600.

    #36,838
    rank among US surnames
    606
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #35,487)

    Who is named Summit

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

    89% of people named Summit identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Summit

    Summit has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Summit come from?
    Unknown origin for the surname. In place names, it usually represents a point of high elevation, perhaps the highest in the area.
    How common is the surname Summit?
    606 people in the United States had the surname Summit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 509,481 Americans. It ranked 36,838th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Summit?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Summit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Summit getting more or less common?
    More common. 600 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 606 in 2010, up 1.0%.