How common is the surname Via?

4,570 people in the United States had the surname Via in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,559 Americans. It ranked 7,293rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Via?

In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Via identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Via getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,689 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,570 in 2010, down 2.5%.

The surname Via

A surname, carried by 4,570 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Via is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,570 people named Via in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,559 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,689.

#7,293

rank among US surnames

4,570

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

-2.5%

change since 2000 (was #6,649)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,287	Mariani	4,573	67,515
#7,291	Wortman	4,572	67,530
#7,292	Clair	4,571	67,544
#7,293	Via	4,570	67,559
#7,295	Weitzel	4,569	67,574
#7,298	Halliday	4,568	67,589

Who is named Via

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

83% of people named Via identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Via

Viau

Via has the Soundex code V000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V000.

Questions

How common is the surname Via?: 4,570 people in the United States had the surname Via in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,559 Americans. It ranked 7,293rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Via?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Via identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Via getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,689 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,570 in 2010, down 2.5%.