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    The surname Vanscoy

    A Dutch surname, carried by 1,533 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex V520

    Vanscoy: #18,156 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vanscoy #18,156, 1,533 people Vanscoy: #18,156 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vanscoy #18,156, 1,533 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanscoy is more common than 88.8% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    From Dutch Van Scoy.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,533 people named Vanscoy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 201,400 Americans. That is down 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,568.

    #18,156
    rank among US surnames
    1,533
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #16,769)

    Who is named Vanscoy

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

    93% of people named Vanscoy identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Scoy

    Surnames that sound like Vanscoy

    Vanscoy has the Soundex code V520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V520.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Vanscoy come from?
    From Dutch Van Scoy.
    How common is the surname Vanscoy?
    1,533 people in the United States had the surname Vanscoy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 201,400 Americans. It ranked 18,156th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Vanscoy?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vanscoy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Vanscoy getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,568 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,533 in 2010, down 2.2%.
    What are other spellings of Vanscoy?
    Scoy.