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    The surname Balaguer

    A Catalan place surname, carried by 571 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B426

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Balaguer is more common than 76.2% of them.

    Origin

    Catalan origin

    Borrowed from Catalan Balaguer; in its turn derived from Andalusian Arabic بلغي (“Balàghey”).

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

    One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 571 people named Balaguer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 540,710 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 461.

    #38,691
    rank among US surnames
    571
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23.9%
    change since 2000 (was #44,027)

    Who is named Balaguer

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

    74% of people named Balaguer identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 18% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 74%
    • White (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 6.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Balaguer

    Balaguer has the Soundex code B426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B426.

    Other Catalan surnames

    All 39 Catalan surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Balaguer come from?
    Borrowed from Catalan Balaguer; in its turn derived from Andalusian Arabic بلغي (“Balàghey”).
    How common is the surname Balaguer?
    571 people in the United States had the surname Balaguer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 540,710 Americans. It ranked 38,691st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Balaguer?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Balaguer identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 18% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Balaguer?
    Balaguer is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Balaguer getting more or less common?
    More common. 461 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 571 in 2010, up 24%.