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    The surname Vanover

    A surname, carried by 6,689 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex V516

    Vanover: #5,219 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vanover #5,219, 6,689 people Vanover: #5,219 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vanover #5,219, 6,689 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanover is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,689 people named Vanover in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 46,157 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,453.

    #5,219
    rank among US surnames
    6,689
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #4,991)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,215Stott6,69346,130
    #5,216Nowlin6,69246,137
    #5,218Brush6,69046,150
    #5,219Vanover6,68946,157

    Who is named Vanover

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

    93% of people named Vanover identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Vanover

    Vanover has the Soundex code V516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V516.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Vanover?
    6,689 people in the United States had the surname Vanover in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 46,157 Americans. It ranked 5,219th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Vanover?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vanover identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Vanover getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,453 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,689 in 2010, up 3.7%.