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    The surname Baksh

    A surname, carried by 1,791 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B200

    Baksh: #16,150 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Baksh #16,150, 1,791 people Baksh: #16,150 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Baksh #16,150, 1,791 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Baksh is more common than 90% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,791 people named Baksh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,387 Americans. That is up 36% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,314.

    #16,150
    rank among US surnames
    1,791
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +36.3%
    change since 2000 (was #19,136)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,147Zertuche1,792172,291
    #16,150Zeitler1,791172,387
    #16,157Besser1,790172,484

    Who is named Baksh

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

    48% of people named Baksh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 26% as Black (not Hispanic) and 9.2% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 48%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 26%
    • Two or more races 9.2%
    • White (not Hispanic) 9.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Baksh

    Baksh has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Baksh?
    1,791 people in the United States had the surname Baksh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,387 Americans. It ranked 16,150th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Baksh?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Baksh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 26% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Baksh getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,314 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,791 in 2010, up 36%.