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    The surname Temples

    A surname, carried by 1,751 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T514

    Temples: #16,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Temples #16,427, 1,751 people Temples: #16,427 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Temples #16,427, 1,751 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Temples is more common than 89.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,751 people named Temples in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,325 Americans. That is up 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,444.

    #16,427
    rank among US surnames
    1,751
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +21.3%
    change since 2000 (was #17,871)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,420Bardsley1,752176,225
    #16,427McGeorge1,751176,325

    Who is named Temples

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

    94% of people named Temples identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Temples

    Temples has the Soundex code T514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T514.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Temples?
    1,751 people in the United States had the surname Temples in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,325 Americans. It ranked 16,427th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Temples?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Temples identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Temples getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,444 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,751 in 2010, up 21%.