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The surname Blankinship

A surname, carried by 1,597 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B452

Blankinship: #17,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blankinship #17,596, 1,597 people Blankinship: #17,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blankinship #17,596, 1,597 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blankinship is more common than 89.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,597 people named Blankinship in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,328 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,517.

#17,596
rank among US surnames
1,597
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+5.3%
change since 2000 (was #17,209)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#17,596McGeehan1,597193,328
#17,605Stahlman1,596193,450

Who is named Blankinship

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

89% of people named Blankinship identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • White (not Hispanic) 89%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.9%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blankinship

Blankinship has the Soundex code B452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B452.

Questions

How common is the surname Blankinship?
1,597 people in the United States had the surname Blankinship in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,328 Americans. It ranked 17,596th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blankinship?
In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Blankinship identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Blankinship getting more or less common?
More common. 1,517 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,597 in 2010, up 5.3%.