How common is the surname Vermillion?

5,449 people in the United States had the surname Vermillion in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,661 Americans. It ranked 6,271st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Vermillion?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vermillion identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Vermillion getting more or less common?

More common. 5,323 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,449 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Vermillion

A surname, carried by 5,449 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V654

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vermillion is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,449 people named Vermillion in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,661 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,323.

#6,271

rank among US surnames

5,449

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #5,956)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,267	Knecht	5,452	56,630
#6,268	Cawley	5,451	56,640
#6,269	McCulley	5,450	56,651
#6,271	Lowder	5,449	56,661
#6,273	Senn	5,448	56,671

Who is named Vermillion

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

93% of people named Vermillion identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 2.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vermillion

Vermeulen

Vermillion has the Soundex code V654, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V654.

Questions

How common is the surname Vermillion?: 5,449 people in the United States had the surname Vermillion in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,661 Americans. It ranked 6,271st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vermillion?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Vermillion identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Vermillion getting more or less common?: More common. 5,323 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,449 in 2010, up 2.4%.