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The surname Veach

A surname, carried by 4,896 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex V200

Veach: #6,872 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Veach #6,872, 4,896 people Veach: #6,872 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Veach #6,872, 4,896 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Veach is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,896 people named Veach in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,061 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,745.

#6,872
rank among US surnames
4,896
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+3.2%
change since 2000 (was #6,585)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,866Mingo4,89963,022
#6,869Gasper4,89863,035
#6,870Weinberger4,89763,048
#6,872Veach4,89663,061

Who is named Veach

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

95% of people named Veach identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Veach

Veach has the Soundex code V200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V200.

Questions

How common is the surname Veach?
4,896 people in the United States had the surname Veach in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,061 Americans. It ranked 6,872nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Veach?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Veach identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Veach getting more or less common?
More common. 4,745 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,896 in 2010, up 3.2%.