How common is the surname Ure?

1,001 people in the United States had the surname Ure in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 308,437 Americans. It ranked 24,855th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ure?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Ure identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ure getting more or less common?

More common. 916 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,001 in 2010, up 9.3%.

The surname Ure

A surname, carried by 1,001 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex U600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ure is more common than 84.7% of them.

Origin

From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,001 people named Ure in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 308,437 Americans. That is up 9.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 916.

#24,855

rank among US surnames

1,001

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+9.3%

change since 2000 (was #25,374)

Who is named Ure

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

92% of people named Ure identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.4%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ure

Ure has the Soundex code U600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code U600.

Questions

Where does the surname Ure come from?: From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram,…
How common is the surname Ure?: 1,001 people in the United States had the surname Ure in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 308,437 Americans. It ranked 24,855th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ure?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Ure identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ure getting more or less common?: More common. 916 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,001 in 2010, up 9.3%.