How common is the surname Blakeman?

3,380 people in the United States had the surname Blakeman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,345 Americans. It ranked 9,615th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Blakeman?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Blakeman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Blakeman getting more or less common?

More common. 3,206 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,380 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Blakeman

A surname, carried by 3,380 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blakeman is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,380 people named Blakeman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 91,345 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,206.

#9,615

rank among US surnames

3,380

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #9,331)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,607	Wingert	3,383	91,264
#9,609	Sabatino	3,382	91,291
#9,611	Cuenca	3,381	91,318
#9,615	Backer	3,380	91,345
#9,618	Courville	3,379	91,372
#9,620	Mardis	3,378	91,399
#9,621	Nassar	3,377	91,426

Who is named Blakeman

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

94% of people named Blakeman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blakeman

Blakeman has the Soundex code B425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B425.

Questions

How common is the surname Blakeman?: 3,380 people in the United States had the surname Blakeman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 91,345 Americans. It ranked 9,615th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blakeman?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Blakeman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blakeman getting more or less common?: More common. 3,206 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,380 in 2010, up 5.4%.