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    The surname Bucklew

    A place surname, carried by 1,176 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B240

    Bucklew: #22,047 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bucklew #22,047, 1,176 people Bucklew: #22,047 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bucklew #22,047, 1,176 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bucklew is more common than 86.4% of them.

    Origin

    Habitational surname from the village of Buccleuch, in Scotland.

    Bucklew is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,176 people named Bucklew in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 262,539 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,148.

    #22,047
    rank among US surnames
    1,176
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #21,273)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #22,047Whistler1,176262,539
    #22,056Hopf1,175262,762

    Who is named Bucklew

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

    96% of people named Bucklew identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Bucklew

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bucklew come from?
    Habitational surname from the village of Buccleuch, in Scotland.
    How common is the surname Bucklew?
    1,176 people in the United States had the surname Bucklew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,539 Americans. It ranked 22,047th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bucklew?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bucklew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Bucklew?
    Bucklew is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Bucklew getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,176 in 2010, up 2.4%.
    What are other spellings of Bucklew?
    Buckalew, Buckallew and Buckelew.