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The surname Cargile

A surname, carried by 2,355 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C624

Cargile: #13,037 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Cargile #13,037, 2,355 people Cargile: #13,037 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Cargile #13,037, 2,355 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cargile is more common than 92% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,355 people named Cargile in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,102 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,246.

#13,037
rank among US surnames
2,355
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+4.9%
change since 2000 (was #12,642)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,029Arvin2,357130,991
#13,034Weight2,356131,046
#13,037Cargile2,355131,102
#13,042Motz2,354131,158

Who is named Cargile

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

77% of people named Cargile identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 77%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • 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 Cargile

Cargile has the Soundex code C624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C624.

Questions

How common is the surname Cargile?
2,355 people in the United States had the surname Cargile in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,102 Americans. It ranked 13,037th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cargile?
In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Cargile identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Cargile getting more or less common?
More common. 2,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,355 in 2010, up 4.9%.