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    The surname Belk

    A surname, carried by 6,886 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B420

    Belk: #5,085 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Belk #5,085, 6,886 people Belk: #5,085 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Belk #5,085, 6,886 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Belk is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,886 people named Belk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,837 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,914.

    #5,085
    rank among US surnames
    6,886
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +16.4%
    change since 2000 (was #5,421)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,076Catalan6,89944,752
    #5,077Bischoff6,89744,765
    #5,079Davalos6,89444,785
    #5,080Doolittle6,89344,791
    #5,081Poulin6,89244,798
    #5,082Stoker6,88844,824
    #5,083Corder6,88744,830

    Who is named Belk

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

    76% of people named Belk identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Belk

    Belk has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Belk?
    6,886 people in the United States had the surname Belk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,837 Americans. It ranked 5,085th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Belk?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Belk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Belk getting more or less common?
    More common. 5,914 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,886 in 2010, up 16%.