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    The surname Veal

    A surname, carried by 7,842 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex V400

    Veal: #4,519 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Veal #4,519, 7,842 people Veal: #4,519 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Veal #4,519, 7,842 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Veal is more common than 97.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,842 people named Veal in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,371 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,632.

    #4,519
    rank among US surnames
    7,842
    people in 2010
    2.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #4,299)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,510Mei7,86739,246
    #4,512Hyland7,86239,271
    #4,513Lemaster7,85839,291
    #4,514Ballew7,85739,296
    #4,515Riordan7,84839,341
    #4,517Volpe7,84739,346
    #4,518Conlon7,84539,356

    Who is named Veal

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

    50% of people named Veal identified as Black (not Hispanic), 45% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 50%
    • White (not Hispanic) 45%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Veal

    Veal has the Soundex code V400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Veal?
    7,842 people in the United States had the surname Veal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,371 Americans. It ranked 4,519th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Veal?
    In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Veal identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 45% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Veal getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,632 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,842 in 2010, up 2.8%.