The surname Bigham
A surname, carried by 5,525 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B250
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,525 people named Bigham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 55,882 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,473.
#6,193
rank among US surnames
5,525
people in 2010
1.9
per 100,000 Americans
+1%
change since 2000 (was #5,786)
Who is named Bigham
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
83% of people named Bigham identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 83%
- Black (not Hispanic) 13%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Bigham
Bigham has the Soundex code B250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B250.
Questions
- How common is the surname Bigham?
- 5,525 people in the United States had the surname Bigham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 55,882 Americans. It ranked 6,193rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bigham?
- In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Bigham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Bigham getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,473 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,525 in 2010, up 1.0%.