How common is the surname Vickery?

8,874 people in the United States had the surname Vickery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,792 Americans. It ranked 4,005th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Vickery?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Vickery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Vickery?

Sachia Vickery, American tennis player, followed by John Vickery.

Where is the surname Vickery most common?

Wikidata records people named Vickery in the United States and Australia.

Is the surname Vickery getting more or less common?

Less common. 8,907 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,874 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Vickery

A surname, carried by 8,874 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vickery is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

Variant of Vicker.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,874 people named Vickery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,792 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 8,907.

#4,005

rank among US surnames

8,874

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #3,664)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,999	Cranford	8,883	34,757
#4,002	Stubblefield	8,878	34,776
#4,004	Grabowski	8,877	34,780
#4,005	Vickery	8,874	34,792

Who is named Vickery

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

95% of people named Vickery identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Vickerys

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sachia Vickery
American tennis player, born 1995
John Vickery
American actor, born 1950
Joyce Winifred Vickery
Australian botanist, botanical collector, agrostologist, and conservationist (1908-1979)

Notable Vickerys come mostly from the United States (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vickery

Vickery has the Soundex code V260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V260.

Questions

Where does the surname Vickery come from?: Variant of Vicker.
How common is the surname Vickery?: 8,874 people in the United States had the surname Vickery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,792 Americans. It ranked 4,005th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vickery?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Vickery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Vickery?: Sachia Vickery, American tennis player, followed by John Vickery.
Where is the surname Vickery most common?: Wikidata records people named Vickery in the United States and Australia.
Is the surname Vickery getting more or less common?: Less common. 8,907 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,874 in 2010, down 0.4%.