Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census

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Names_2010Census_Top1000.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 91.9 KB 05/29/2017 06:27:AM
names.zip application/zip 12.3 MB 05/29/2017 06:30:AM
surnames.pdf application/pdf 88.8 KB 05/29/2017 06:27:AM

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United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-05-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100668V1

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Project Title:  View help for Project Title Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census
Summary:  View help for Summary NOTE: This presentation of data focuses on summarized aggregates of counts and characteristics associated with surnames, and the data do not in any way identify any specific individuals.Tabulations of all surnames occurring 100 or more times in the 2010 Census returns are provided in the files listed below. The first link explains the methodology used for identifying and editing names data. The second link provides an Excel file of the top 1,000 surnames. The third link provides zipped Excel and CSV (comma separated) files of the complete list of 162,253 names. [ed. note: Table removed]

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[ed. note: links below point to the original URL; all files are available in this archive.]
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Cornell University (Labor Dynamics Institute)
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html



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