The surname Valois
A French surname, carried by 1,165 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex V420
Origin
French origin
A surname from French.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,165 people named Valois in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,012.
Who is named Valois
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
71% of people named Valois identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 4.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 71%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 22%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 4.0%
- Two or more races 2.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Valois has the Soundex code V420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V420.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Valois come from?
- Valois is French in origin.
- How common is the surname Valois?
- 1,165 people in the United States had the surname Valois in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. It ranked 22,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Valois?
- In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Valois identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Valois getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,012 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,165 in 2010, up 15%.