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    The surname Vandyke

    A surname, carried by 17,030 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex V532

    Vandyke: #2,131 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Vandyke #2,131, 17,030 people Vandyke: #2,131 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vandyke #2,131, 17,030 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vandyke is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,030 people named Vandyke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 18,130 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,474.

    #2,131
    rank among US surnames
    17,030
    people in 2010
    5.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #2,019)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,122Chow17,05918,099
    #2,123Dutton17,05718,101
    #2,125Flood17,05318,105
    #2,127Read17,04818,110
    #2,128Hobson17,04318,116
    #2,129Bustos17,04018,119
    #2,130Benedict17,03618,123

    Who is named Vandyke

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

    90% of people named Vandyke identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Vandyke

    Vandyke has the Soundex code V532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V532.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Vandyke?
    17,030 people in the United States had the surname Vandyke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,130 Americans. It ranked 2,131st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Vandyke?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Vandyke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Vandyke getting more or less common?
    More common. 16,474 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,030 in 2010, up 3.4%.