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    The surname Archey

    A surname, carried by 1,144 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A620

    Archey: #22,481 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Archey #22,481, 1,144 people Archey: #22,481 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Archey #22,481, 1,144 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Archey is more common than 86.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,144 people named Archey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 269,882 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,102.

    #22,481
    rank among US surnames
    1,144
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #21,947)

    Who is named Archey

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

    80% of people named Archey identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 4.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Archey

    Archey has the Soundex code A620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Archey?
    1,144 people in the United States had the surname Archey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 269,882 Americans. It ranked 22,481st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Archey?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Archey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Archey getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,102 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,144 in 2010, up 3.8%.