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    The surname Blackwelder

    A surname, carried by 2,598 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex B424

    Blackwelder: #12,017 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blackwelder #12,017, 2,598 people Blackwelder: #12,017 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blackwelder #12,017, 2,598 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blackwelder is more common than 92.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,598 people named Blackwelder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 118,840 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,687.

    #12,017
    rank among US surnames
    2,598
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #10,876)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,009Donlon2,600118,748
    #12,012Szeto2,599118,794
    #12,017Satchell2,598118,840
    #12,022Detrick2,597118,885
    #12,025Pless2,596118,931

    Who is named Blackwelder

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

    96% of people named Blackwelder identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Blackwelder

    Blackwelder 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 Blackwelder?
    2,598 people in the United States had the surname Blackwelder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,840 Americans. It ranked 12,017th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Blackwelder?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blackwelder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Blackwelder getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,687 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,598 in 2010, down 3.3%.