# Barkus (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/barkus/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Lithuanian |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 556 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,555 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 555,298 people |
| Change since 2000 | -8.9% (610 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Various origins: * A reduced form of Barkhouse, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a tannery. * Borrowed from Lithuanian Barkus, a variant of Bartkus. * Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Barkus, a surname with an unexplained origin.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Barkus in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 70% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 24% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Two or more races | 3.2% |

## Similar surnames

Burks, Bargas, Barcus, Barks, Birks, Barajas, Burgess, Burgos, Borges, Bourgeois, Burciaga, Borkowski.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.