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    The surname Viar

    A surname, carried by 1,057 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex V600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Viar is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,057 people named Viar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 292,096 Americans. That is down 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,136.

    #23,881
    rank among US surnames
    1,057
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -7%
    change since 2000 (was #21,455)

    Who is named Viar

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

    94% of people named Viar identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Viar

    Viar has the Soundex code V600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Viar?
    1,057 people in the United States had the surname Viar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 292,096 Americans. It ranked 23,881st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Viar?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Viar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Viar getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,136 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,057 in 2010, down 7.0%.