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    The surname Bark

    An English place surname, carried by 1,808 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bark is more common than 90.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    * As an English surname, possibly a variant of Bargh, from places such as Barugh in Yorkshire, derived from Old English beorh (“hill”), or directly from the Old English noun. * As a north/Low German and Dutch surname, from the noun berke (“birch”); also names for someone who lived near a mountain, see Barg, Berk. * Also as a Dutch surname, possibly a pet from of the name Barnhard. * As a Polish surname, from the noun bark (“shoulder”).

    Bark 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 1,808 people named Bark in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 170,766 Americans. That is down 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,192.

    #16,041
    rank among US surnames
    1,808
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -17.5%
    change since 2000 (was #12,868)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,041Bark1,808170,766
    #16,049Fritsche1,807170,861

    Who is named Bark

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

    72% of people named Bark identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 6.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 14%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 6.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bark

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

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bark come from?
    * As an English surname, possibly a variant of Bargh, from places such as Barugh in Yorkshire, derived from Old English beorh (“hill”), or directly from the Old English noun. * As a north/Low German and Dutch surname, from the noun berke (“birch”); also names for someone who lived near a mountain,…
    How common is the surname Bark?
    1,808 people in the United States had the surname Bark in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 170,766 Americans. It ranked 16,041st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bark?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Bark identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Bark?
    Bark is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bark getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,192 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,808 in 2010, down 18%.