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The surname Barter

A surname, carried by 2,315 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B636

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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). Barter is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,315 people named Barter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,387.

#13,203
rank among US surnames
2,315
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
-3%
change since 2000 (was #12,009)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,195Rizzuto2,316133,310
#13,203Lamphere2,315133,367
#13,210Wigfall2,314133,425

Who is named Barter

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

88% of people named Barter identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 88%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Barter

Barter has the Soundex code B636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B636.

Questions

How common is the surname Barter?
2,315 people in the United States had the surname Barter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. It ranked 13,203rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Barter?
In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Barter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Barter getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,387 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,315 in 2010, down 3.0%.