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The surname Acree

A surname, carried by 4,519 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A260

Acree: #7,369 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Acree #7,369, 4,519 people Acree: #7,369 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Acree #7,369, 4,519 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Acree is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

Two main origins: * Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Akre. * Possibly an altered form of Ackary.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,519 people named Acree in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,322 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,322.

#7,369
rank among US surnames
4,519
people in 2010
1.5
per 100,000 Americans
+4.6%
change since 2000 (was #7,129)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,366Midkiff4,52368,261
#7,367Duck4,52168,291
#7,368Eckhardt4,52068,307
#7,369Cassady4,51968,322
#7,373Zander4,51868,337

Who is named Acree

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

79% of people named Acree identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 79%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Acree

Acree has the Soundex code A260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A260.

Questions

Where does the surname Acree come from?
Two main origins: * Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Akre. * Possibly an altered form of Ackary.
How common is the surname Acree?
4,519 people in the United States had the surname Acree in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,322 Americans. It ranked 7,369th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Acree?
In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Acree identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Acree getting more or less common?
More common. 4,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,519 in 2010, up 4.6%.