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    The surname Barge

    A surname, carried by 2,455 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B620

    Barge: #12,607 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Barge #12,607, 2,455 people Barge: #12,607 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Barge #12,607, 2,455 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barge is more common than 92.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,455 people named Barge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,762 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,334.

    #12,607
    rank among US surnames
    2,455
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.2%
    change since 2000 (was #12,238)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,602Lichtenstein2,456125,711
    #12,607Lanford2,455125,762
    #12,613Durgin2,454125,813
    #12,616Gordan2,453125,864

    Who is named Barge

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

    60% of people named Barge identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 60%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Barge

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Barge?
    2,455 people in the United States had the surname Barge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,762 Americans. It ranked 12,607th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Barge?
    In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Barge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Barge getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,334 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,455 in 2010, up 5.2%.