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    The surname Blackett

    An English place surname, carried by 605 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B423

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blackett is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    A diminutive of the surname Black or a topographic surname for someone who lived by a dark headland, from Middle English blak (“black”) + heaved (“head”).

    Blackett 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 605 people named Blackett in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 510,323 Americans. That is down 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 646.

    #36,900
    rank among US surnames
    605
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6.3%
    change since 2000 (was #33,333)

    Who is named Blackett

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

    52% of people named Blackett identified as white (not Hispanic), 42% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 52%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 42%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    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 Blackett

    Blackett has the Soundex code B423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B423.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Blackett come from?
    A diminutive of the surname Black or a topographic surname for someone who lived by a dark headland, from Middle English blak (“black”) + heaved (“head”).
    How common is the surname Blackett?
    605 people in the United States had the surname Blackett in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 510,323 Americans. It ranked 36,900th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Blackett?
    In the 2010 Census, 52% of people named Blackett identified as white (not Hispanic), and 42% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Blackett?
    Blackett is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Blackett getting more or less common?
    Less common. 646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 605 in 2010, down 6.3%.