The surname Alkire
A surname, carried by 2,648 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A426
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,648 people named Alkire in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,596 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,557.
#11,818
rank among US surnames
2,648
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+3.6%
change since 2000 (was #11,333)
Who is named Alkire
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Alkire identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Alkire
Alkire has the Soundex code A426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A426.
Questions
- How common is the surname Alkire?
- 2,648 people in the United States had the surname Alkire in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,596 Americans. It ranked 11,818th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Alkire?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Alkire identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Alkire getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,557 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,648 in 2010, up 3.6%.