How common is the surname Barwick?

3,848 people in the United States had the surname Barwick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,235 Americans. It ranked 8,559th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Barwick getting more or less common?

More common. 3,750 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,848 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Barwick

An English place surname, carried by 3,848 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Barwick is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English bere (“barley”) + wīc (“village”).

Barwick 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 3,848 people named Barwick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,235 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,750.

#8,559

rank among US surnames

3,848

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #8,140)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,551	Riehl	3,852	80,152
#8,556	Gress	3,850	80,194
#8,558	Lafave	3,849	80,214
#8,559	Defelice	3,848	80,235
#8,562	Manrique	3,847	80,256
#8,567	Fitz	3,846	80,277
#8,568	Kobayashi	3,845	80,298

Who is named Barwick

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

94% of people named Barwick identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Barwick

Barwick 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 Barwick come from?: From Old English bere (“barley”) + wīc (“village”).
How common is the surname Barwick?: 3,848 people in the United States had the surname Barwick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,235 Americans. It ranked 8,559th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Barwick?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Barwick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Barwick?: Barwick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Barwick getting more or less common?: More common. 3,750 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,848 in 2010, up 2.6%.