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    The surname Betancur

    A surname, carried by 1,690 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B352

    Betancur: #16,868 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Betancur #16,868, 1,690 people Betancur: #16,868 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Betancur #16,868, 1,690 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Betancur is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,690 people named Betancur in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. That is up 38% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,222.

    #16,868
    rank among US surnames
    1,690
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +38.3%
    change since 2000 (was #20,260)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,860Cermak1,692182,474
    #16,864Doyal1,691182,582
    #16,868Chmiel1,690182,690
    #16,876Melnik1,689182,798

    Who is named Betancur

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

    94% of people named Betancur identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 5.4% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 94%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Two or more races 0.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Betancur

    Betancur has the Soundex code B352, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B352.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Betancur?
    1,690 people in the United States had the surname Betancur in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. It ranked 16,868th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Betancur?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Betancur identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 5.4% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Betancur getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,222 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,690 in 2010, up 38%.