How common is the surname Voyles?

5,551 people in the United States had the surname Voyles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,620 Americans. It ranked 6,165th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Voyles?

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

Is the surname Voyles getting more or less common?

More common. 5,353 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,551 in 2010, up 3.7%.

The surname Voyles

A Welsh surname, carried by 5,551 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex V420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Voyles is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

Welsh origin

Variant of Voyle.

One of 60 Welsh surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,551 people named Voyles in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,620 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,353.

#6,165

rank among US surnames

5,551

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+3.7%

change since 2000 (was #5,921)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,156	McCraw	5,561	55,520
#6,157	Houk	5,560	55,530
#6,158	Sokol	5,559	55,540
#6,160	Philpot	5,558	55,550
#6,161	Appleby	5,556	55,570
#6,162	Crone	5,555	55,580
#6,164	Olszewski	5,554	55,590

Who is named Voyles

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

95% of people named Voyles identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Voyles

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

Other Welsh surnames

All 60 Welsh surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Voyles come from?: Variant of Voyle.
How common is the surname Voyles?: 5,551 people in the United States had the surname Voyles in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,620 Americans. It ranked 6,165th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Voyles?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Voyles identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Voyles getting more or less common?: More common. 5,353 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,551 in 2010, up 3.7%.