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    The surname Barcroft

    An English place surname, carried by 407 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B626

    Barcroft: #51,176 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Barcroft #51,176, 407 people Barcroft: #51,176 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Barcroft #51,176, 407 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barcroft is more common than 68.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from one or more minor places in England, from Old English bere (“barley”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 407 people named Barcroft in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 758,589 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 355.

    #51,176
    rank among US surnames
    407
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +14.6%
    change since 2000 (was #54,385)

    Who is named Barcroft

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

    94% of people named Barcroft identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Bearcroft

    Surnames that sound like Barcroft

    Barcroft has the Soundex code B626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B626.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Barcroft come from?
    Habitational surname from one or more minor places in England, from Old English bere (“barley”) + croft (“enclosed field”).
    How common is the surname Barcroft?
    407 people in the United States had the surname Barcroft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 758,589 Americans. It ranked 51,176th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Barcroft?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Barcroft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Barcroft?
    Barcroft is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Barcroft getting more or less common?
    More common. 355 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 407 in 2010, up 15%.
    What are other spellings of Barcroft?
    Bearcroft.