Sy

At the 2020 census, 5,206 Americans bore the surname Sy — 6,290th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 57,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,206
Rank: 6,290th
How common: 1 in 57,400
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Hokkien

From Spanish Sy, from nan-hbl 施.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 67.6%
Black, not Hispanic 21.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Sy

Omar Sy (born 1978)French actor and comedian
Brigitte Sy (born 1956)French actress
Frédéric Sy (1861–1945)French astronomer
Henry Sy (1924–2019)Filipino businessman, the richest man in the Philippines according to Forbes or 11 years (2007-2018).
Kalista Sy (born 1982)Senegalese screenwriter and producer
Pape Sy (born 1988)French African basketball player
Ramata-Toulaye Sy (born 1986)senegalese-French film director and screenwriter
Oumou Sy (born 1952)Senegalese fashion designer

People named Sy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sy

Also a first name

Sy has been given to 972 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.