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    The surname Barch

    A surname, carried by 672 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B620

    Barch: #33,856 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Barch #33,856, 672 people Barch: #33,856 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Barch #33,856, 672 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barch is more common than 79.1% of them.

    Origin

    * As a north/Low German surname, from the Low German form of Berg (“hill, mountain”), compare Barg. * As an Hungarian surname, from the personal name Barcs. * As a German surname, Americanized from Bartsch, or the related Czech Barč.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 672 people named Barch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 459,443 Americans. That is down 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 804.

    #33,856
    rank among US surnames
    672
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -16.4%
    change since 2000 (was #28,049)

    Who is named Barch

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

    95% of people named Barch identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Barch

    Barch has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Barch come from?
    * As a north/Low German surname, from the Low German form of Berg (“hill, mountain”), compare Barg. * As an Hungarian surname, from the personal name Barcs. * As a German surname, Americanized from Bartsch, or the related Czech Barč.
    How common is the surname Barch?
    672 people in the United States had the surname Barch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 459,443 Americans. It ranked 33,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Barch?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Barch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Barch getting more or less common?
    Less common. 804 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 672 in 2010, down 16%.