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    The surname Arbuckle

    A Scottish Gaelic place surname, carried by 4,393 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A612

    Arbuckle: #7,564 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Arbuckle #7,564, 4,393 people Arbuckle: #7,564 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Arbuckle #7,564, 4,393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Arbuckle is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in North Lanarkshire, from Scottish Gaelic earrann (“part, section”) + buachaille (“of the herdsman”).

    Arbuckle is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,393 people named Arbuckle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,281 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,284.

    #7,564
    rank among US surnames
    4,393
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #7,182)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,561Otten4,39670,233
    #7,562Hertel4,39570,249
    #7,563Tessier4,39470,265
    #7,564Arbuckle4,39370,281

    Who is named Arbuckle

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

    88% of people named Arbuckle identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Arbuckle has the Soundex code A612, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A612.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Arbuckle come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in North Lanarkshire, from Scottish Gaelic earrann (“part, section”) + buachaille (“of the herdsman”).
    How common is the surname Arbuckle?
    4,393 people in the United States had the surname Arbuckle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,281 Americans. It ranked 7,564th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Arbuckle?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Arbuckle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Arbuckle?
    Arbuckle is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Arbuckle getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,393 in 2010, up 2.5%.
    What are other spellings of Arbuckle?
    Hornbuckle.