Fast Facts: The Most Popular Surnames in the United States, New Rankings From the U.S. Census
From the U.S. Census:
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the country’s top 1,000 surnames by race and Hispanic origin and those that occurred 100 or more times in the 2010 Census.
The graphics show the top 15 most popular surnames and those with the largest increase and rank.
Additionally, the Random Samplings blog discusses trends gathered from the tabulations.
Data Files
See Also: Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 and 200o Census
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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