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The surname Blacker

A surname, carried by 1,686 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B426

Blacker: #16,894 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blacker #16,894, 1,686 people Blacker: #16,894 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blacker #16,894, 1,686 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blacker 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 1,686 people named Blacker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 183,123 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,491.

#16,894
rank among US surnames
1,686
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+13.1%
change since 2000 (was #17,436)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,887Howery1,687183,015
#16,894Schild1,686183,123
#16,900Hoar1,685183,232

Who is named Blacker

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

93% of people named Blacker identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
  • Two or more races 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blacker

Blacker has the Soundex code B426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B426.

Questions

How common is the surname Blacker?
1,686 people in the United States had the surname Blacker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 183,123 Americans. It ranked 16,894th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blacker?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Blacker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blacker getting more or less common?
More common. 1,491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,686 in 2010, up 13%.