How common is the surname Vice?

5,403 people in the United States had the surname Vice in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,143 Americans. It ranked 6,318th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Vice getting more or less common?

More common. 5,213 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,403 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Vice

A surname, carried by 5,403 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex V200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vice 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 5,403 people named Vice in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 57,143 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,213.

#6,318

rank among US surnames

5,403

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #6,067)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,312	Reeve	5,406	57,112
#6,313	Pepe	5,405	57,122
#6,315	Gagliardi	5,404	57,133
#6,318	Loucks	5,403	57,143
#6,321	Faris	5,401	57,165

Who is named Vice

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

90% of people named Vice identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vice

Vice has the Soundex code V200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V200.

Questions

How common is the surname Vice?: 5,403 people in the United States had the surname Vice in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 57,143 Americans. It ranked 6,318th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vice?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Vice identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Vice getting more or less common?: More common. 5,213 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,403 in 2010, up 3.6%.