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    The surname Blackledge

    A surname, carried by 2,303 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B424

    Blackledge: #13,255 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blackledge #13,255, 2,303 people Blackledge: #13,255 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blackledge #13,255, 2,303 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blackledge is more common than 91.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,303 people named Blackledge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,062 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,252.

    #13,255
    rank among US surnames
    2,303
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,611)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,246Yousef2,305133,946
    #13,251Amey2,304134,004
    #13,255Blackledge2,303134,062
    #13,259Hershman2,302134,121
    #13,263Franko2,301134,179
    #13,264Paull2,300134,237

    Who is named Blackledge

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

    84% of people named Blackledge identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 84%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • 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 Blackledge

    Blackledge has the Soundex code B424, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B424.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Blackledge?
    2,303 people in the United States had the surname Blackledge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,062 Americans. It ranked 13,255th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Blackledge?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Blackledge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Blackledge getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,252 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,303 in 2010, up 2.3%.