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    The surname Viau

    A French surname, carried by 1,156 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex V000

    Viau: #22,301 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Viau #22,301, 1,156 people Viau: #22,301 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Viau #22,301, 1,156 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Viau is more common than 86.3% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From French Viau.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,156 people named Viau in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,081 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,044.

    #22,301
    rank among US surnames
    1,156
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.7%
    change since 2000 (was #22,891)

    Who is named Viau

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

    90% of people named Viau identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.8%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Deviau

    Surnames that sound like Viau

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

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Viau come from?
    From French Viau.
    How common is the surname Viau?
    1,156 people in the United States had the surname Viau in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,081 Americans. It ranked 22,301st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Viau?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Viau identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Viau getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,156 in 2010, up 11%.
    What are other spellings of Viau?
    Deviau.