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    The surname Barefoot

    A nickname surname, carried by 4,190 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B613

    Barefoot: #7,900 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Barefoot #7,900, 4,190 people Barefoot: #7,900 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Barefoot #7,900, 4,190 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barefoot is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    A nickname, from barefoot.

    Barefoot is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,190 people named Barefoot in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,686 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,184.

    #7,900
    rank among US surnames
    4,190
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #7,334)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,896Brawley4,19373,634
    #7,898Hartsfield4,19273,651
    #7,899Bunton4,19173,669
    #7,900Waldon4,19073,686
    #7,903Sikorski4,18973,704

    Who is named Barefoot

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

    95% of people named Barefoot identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Barfoot
    • Burfoot

    Barefoot has the Soundex code B613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B613.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Barefoot come from?
    A nickname, from barefoot.
    How common is the surname Barefoot?
    4,190 people in the United States had the surname Barefoot in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,686 Americans. It ranked 7,900th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Barefoot?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Barefoot identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Barefoot?
    Barefoot is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Barefoot getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,184 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,190 in 2010, up 0.1%.
    What are other spellings of Barefoot?
    Barfoot and Burfoot.