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Where does YANCEY rank in the most common names in the U.S.?
YANCEY is identified by the U.S. Bureau of the Census as a surname with more than 100 occurrences in the United States for the year-2000 U.S. Census. In "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000", the Census Bureau tabulated the surnames of all people who had obtained Social Security Numbers by the year 2000.
YANCEY ranks # 2503 in terms of the most common surnames in America for 2000.
YANCEY had 13,226 occurrences in the 2000 Census, according the U.S. government records.
Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, YANCEY would occur an average of 4.9 times.
Race / ethnic origin
The race categories shown in these files are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups: "White only", "Black only", "American Indian and Alaskan Native only", "Asian and Pacific Islander only", "Two or More Races", and "Hispanic".
For the last name of YANCEY the Census Bureau reports the following race / ethnic origin breakdown:
- 65.78 percent, or 8,700 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic White Only"
- 30.26 percent, or 4,002 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Black Only"
- 0.3 percent, or 40 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Asian and Pacific Islander Only"
- 0.45 percent, or 60 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaskan Native"
- 1.86 percent, or 246 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic of Two or More Races"
- 1.35 percent, or 179 total occurrences, were "Hispanic Origin"
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