How common is the surname Voris?

1,501 people in the United States had the surname Voris in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,693 Americans. It ranked 18,440th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Voris?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Voris identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Voris getting more or less common?

More common. 1,446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,501 in 2010, up 3.8%.

The surname Voris

A Dutch surname, carried by 1,501 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Voris is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Variant of Voorhees.

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,501 people named Voris in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,693 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,446.

#18,440

rank among US surnames

1,501

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.8%

change since 2000 (was #17,846)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,431	Goggans	1,502	205,556
#18,440	Montz	1,501	205,693
#18,448	Ristau	1,500	205,830

Who is named Voris

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

91% of people named Voris identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, 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 Voris

Voorhies

Voris has the Soundex code V620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V620.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Voris come from?: Variant of Voorhees.
How common is the surname Voris?: 1,501 people in the United States had the surname Voris in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,693 Americans. It ranked 18,440th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Voris?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Voris identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Voris getting more or less common?: More common. 1,446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,501 in 2010, up 3.8%.