The surname Blackston
A surname, carried by 1,774 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B423
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,774 people named Blackston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,039 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,716.
#16,261
rank among US surnames
1,774
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+3.4%
change since 2000 (was #15,640)
Who is named Blackston
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
55% of people named Blackston identified as white (not Hispanic), 41% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 55%
- Black (not Hispanic) 41%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Blackston
Blackston has the Soundex code B423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B423.
Questions
- How common is the surname Blackston?
- 1,774 people in the United States had the surname Blackston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,039 Americans. It ranked 16,261st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Blackston?
- In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Blackston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 41% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Blackston getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,716 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,774 in 2010, up 3.4%.