Hispanics Gaining Big In U.S. Census

Probably the best reason to undertake a census count, other than the fact that is mandated by the U.S. Constitution, is to get a good idea about what kind of changes take place in the population over time. One of the items that is always looked at in an effort to glean this kind of information is to look at the most popular surnames in the census and to determine what ethnicity's are growing in the country and what others are not. Here below is a list of the ten most common surnames taken from the U.S. Census of 2000, the number of people in the country with that surname, and then the rank of that particular surname in the U.S. Census from 1990 in order to indicate an increase or decrease over time. The largest increase has occured with Hispanics as the chart below indicates:

1. Smith----------- 2,376,206-------------------- 1 (1990 rank)


2. Johnson---------1,857,160-------------------- 2


3. Williams--------1,534,042---------------------3


4. Brown-----------1,380,145---------------------5


5. Jones----------- 1,362,755-------------------- 4


6. Miller----------- 1,127,893-------------------- 7


7. Davis----------- 1,072,335-------------------- 6


8. Garcia------------ 858,289--------------------18


9. Rodriguez-------- 804,240--------------------22


10. Wilson------------ 783,051---------------------8