How common is the surname Bah?

4,690 people in the United States had the surname Bah in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,831 Americans. It ranked 7,130th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bah?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bah identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as white (not Hispanic).

Is the surname Bah getting more or less common?

More common. 1,657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,690 in 2010, up 183%.

The surname Bah

A surname, carried by 4,690 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bah is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,690 people named Bah in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,831 Americans. That is up 183% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,657.

#7,130

rank among US surnames

4,690

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+183%

change since 2000 (was #16,062)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,126	Menefee	4,695	65,760
#7,128	Newson	4,693	65,789
#7,129	Holst	4,691	65,817
#7,130	Hunnicutt	4,690	65,831
#7,132	Schulman	4,689	65,845

Who is named Bah

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

93% of people named Bah identified as Black (not Hispanic), 3.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 93%
White (not Hispanic) 3.2%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bah

Bah has the Soundex code B000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B000.

Questions

How common is the surname Bah?: 4,690 people in the United States had the surname Bah in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,831 Americans. It ranked 7,130th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bah?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Bah identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Bah getting more or less common?: More common. 1,657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,690 in 2010, up 183%.