How common is the surname Sykora?

1,894 people in the United States had the surname Sykora in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,012 Americans. It ranked 15,464th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sykora?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sykora identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Sykora?

Thomas Sykora, Austrian alpine skier (born 1968), followed by Stacy Sykora.

Where is the surname Sykora most common?

Wikidata records people named Sykora in Austria and the United States.

Is the surname Sykora getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,896 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,894 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Sykora

A Slovak surname, carried by 1,894 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sykora is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

Slovak origin

Borrowed from Slovak and Czech Sýkora.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,894 people named Sykora in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,012 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,896.

#15,464

rank among US surnames

1,894

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #14,444)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,456	Cadwallader	1,895	162,926
#15,464	Belz	1,894	163,012
#15,471	Castner	1,893	163,099

Who is named Sykora

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

96% of people named Sykora identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sykoras

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Thomas Sykora
Austrian alpine skier (born 1968)
Stacy Sykora
American former volleyball player, born 1977
Maria Sykora
Austrian athletics competitor, born 1946
Liese Prokop
Austrian pentathlete (1941-2006)

Notable Sykoras come mostly from Austria (3) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sykora

Sikora

Sykora has the Soundex code S260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S260.

Questions

Where does the surname Sykora come from?: Borrowed from Slovak and Czech Sýkora.
How common is the surname Sykora?: 1,894 people in the United States had the surname Sykora in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,012 Americans. It ranked 15,464th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sykora?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sykora identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Sykora?: Thomas Sykora, Austrian alpine skier (born 1968), followed by Stacy Sykora.
Where is the surname Sykora most common?: Wikidata records people named Sykora in Austria and the United States.
Is the surname Sykora getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,896 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,894 in 2010, down 0.1%.