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    The surname Barbee

    A surname, carried by 11,470 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B610

    Barbee: #3,151 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Barbee #3,151, 11,470 people Barbee: #3,151 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Barbee #3,151, 11,470 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barbee is more common than 98.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 11,470 people named Barbee in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 26,918 Americans. That is up 9.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,501.

    #3,151
    rank among US surnames
    11,470
    people in 2010
    3.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.2%
    change since 2000 (was #3,149)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,142Maciel11,50026,847
    #3,144Steffen11,49426,861
    #3,145Blalock11,49326,864
    #3,146Levesque11,49026,871
    #3,147Forsythe11,48926,873
    #3,148Newby11,48326,887
    #3,149Lor11,47926,897

    Who is named Barbee

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

    71% of people named Barbee identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • 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 Barbee

    Barbee has the Soundex code B610, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B610.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Barbee?
    11,470 people in the United States had the surname Barbee in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 26,918 Americans. It ranked 3,151st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Barbee?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Barbee identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Barbee getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,501 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 11,470 in 2010, up 9.2%.