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The surname Vlahos

A Greek surname, carried by 1,397 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V420

Vlahos: #19,364 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vlahos #19,364, 1,397 people Vlahos: #19,364 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vlahos #19,364, 1,397 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vlahos is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

Greek origin

Borrowed from Greek Βλάχος (Vláchos, “Wallachian”), an ethnic surname.

One of 45 Greek surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,397 people named Vlahos in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,006 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,269.

#19,364
rank among US surnames
1,397
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+10.1%
change since 2000 (was #19,657)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,364Vlahos1,397221,006
#19,372Crass1,396221,164

Who is named Vlahos

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

94% of people named Vlahos identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
  • Two or more races 2.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
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

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Surnames that sound like Vlahos

Vlahos has the Soundex code V420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V420.

Other Greek surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Vlahos come from?
Borrowed from Greek Βλάχος (Vláchos, “Wallachian”), an ethnic surname.
How common is the surname Vlahos?
1,397 people in the United States had the surname Vlahos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,006 Americans. It ranked 19,364th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vlahos?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Vlahos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Vlahos getting more or less common?
More common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,397 in 2010, up 10%.