The Sites surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,644 people carried this name — #7,195 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 63,700 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (4,621).

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In print

Sites in American newspapers,
1909.

Newspaper page from The Billings Gazette carrying the name Sites
The Billings Gazette 1909-11-23

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Sites in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1980s.

1,055 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sites. The most, 208, date from the 1900s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 1.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Victoria 407
New South Wales 322
Queensland 142
South Australia 88
Western Australia 42
Tasmania 37
ACT (Canberra) 17

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sites.

Who carried it

People named Sites,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Nathan Sites
    Nathan Sites 1830–1895 · missionary
  • Sarah Moore Sites
    Sarah Moore Sites 1838–1912 · missionary
  • C. P. Sites 1859–1930 · architect

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Sites,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States247 records

247 records of the Sites name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 177
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 52
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 12
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 3
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Clayton D. Sites

    Born 1911 in Minnesota. Enlisted 1942 at Denver, Colorado; advertising agent. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2001, buried at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Colorado.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Jesse Sites

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Born 1936, died 2001; buried at Garden of Memories Cemetery, Abilene, Texas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Manuel G. Sites

    Born 1892 in Greece. Registered as a foreign national in Jefferson County, Ohio, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 247 records for Sites in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Sites name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record John Sites

    Died 1901 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Sites.

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