How common is the surname Blough?

3,012 people in the United States had the surname Blough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,505 Americans. It ranked 10,631st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Blough?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Blough getting more or less common?

More common. 2,933 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,012 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Blough

A surname, carried by 3,012 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blough is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,012 people named Blough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,505 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,933.

#10,631

rank among US surnames

3,012

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #10,114)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,626	Leclerc	3,014	102,437
#10,628	Stefan	3,013	102,471
#10,631	Kula	3,012	102,505
#10,636	Schermerhorn	3,011	102,539
#10,638	Pearlman	3,009	102,607

Who is named Blough

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

96% of people named Blough 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%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Blough

Blough has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

Questions

How common is the surname Blough?: 3,012 people in the United States had the surname Blough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,505 Americans. It ranked 10,631st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blough?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Blough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blough getting more or less common?: More common. 2,933 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,012 in 2010, up 2.7%.