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    The surname Barahona

    A Spanish surname, carried by 8,844 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex B650

    Barahona: #4,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Barahona #4,019, 8,844 people Barahona: #4,019 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Barahona #4,019, 8,844 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barahona is more common than 97.5% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Barahona, of Basque origin.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 8,844 people named Barahona in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,910 Americans. That is up 66% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,338.

    #4,019
    rank among US surnames
    8,844
    people in 2010
    3.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +65.7%
    change since 2000 (was #5,936)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,014Duval8,85134,883
    #4,016Weatherford8,85034,887
    #4,018McVey8,84834,894
    #4,019Ritchey8,84434,910

    Who is named Barahona

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

    95% of people named Barahona identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
    • White (not Hispanic) 4.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • Two or more races 0.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Barahona

    Barahona has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Barahona come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Barahona, of Basque origin.
    How common is the surname Barahona?
    8,844 people in the United States had the surname Barahona in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,910 Americans. It ranked 4,019th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Barahona?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Barahona identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.3% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Barahona getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,338 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,844 in 2010, up 66%.