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    The surname Buckle

    An occupational surname, carried by 1,427 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B240

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buckle is more common than 88.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buckles.

    Buckle is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,427 people named Buckle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,360 Americans. That is up 25% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,140.

    #19,075
    rank among US surnames
    1,427
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +25.2%
    change since 2000 (was #21,395)

    Who is named Buckle

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

    77% of people named Buckle identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • 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 Buckle

    Buckle has the Soundex code B240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B240.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Buckle?
    1,427 people in the United States had the surname Buckle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,360 Americans. It ranked 19,075th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Buckle?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Buckle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Buckle?
    Buckle is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Buckle getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,140 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,427 in 2010, up 25%.