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    The surname Veale

    A surname, carried by 1,797 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex V400

    Veale: #16,108 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Veale #16,108, 1,797 people Veale: #16,108 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Veale #16,108, 1,797 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Veale is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,797 people named Veale in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,812 Americans. That is up 9.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,647.

    #16,108
    rank among US surnames
    1,797
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,138)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,100Coughlan1,798171,716
    #16,108Parshall1,797171,812

    Who is named Veale

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

    69% of people named Veale identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Veale

    Veale 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 Veale?
    1,797 people in the United States had the surname Veale in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,812 Americans. It ranked 16,108th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Veale?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Veale identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Veale getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,647 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,797 in 2010, up 9.1%.