Last Name VEST

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Not available
Origin Danish, Hungarian

Rank 2,904 (2000 US census) 2,776 (1990 US census)
Count 11,368 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 92.36%, or 10499 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 3.89%, or 442 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.24%, or 27 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.87%, or 99 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.34%, or 152 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.3%, or 148 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...


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