The surname Vowels
A surname, carried by 1,135 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex V420
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,135 people named Vowels in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,023 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,094.
#22,618
rank among US surnames
1,135
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.7%
change since 2000 (was #22,065)
Who is named Vowels
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Vowels identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
- Two or more races 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Vowels has the Soundex code V420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V420.
Questions
- How common is the surname Vowels?
- 1,135 people in the United States had the surname Vowels in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,023 Americans. It ranked 22,618th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Vowels?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Vowels identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Vowels getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,094 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,135 in 2010, up 3.7%.