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    The surname Carns

    A surname, carried by 1,288 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C652

    Carns: #20,574 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Carns #20,574, 1,288 people Carns: #20,574 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Carns #20,574, 1,288 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carns is more common than 87.3% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Cairns.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,288 people named Carns in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. That is down 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,562.

    #20,574
    rank among US surnames
    1,288
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -17.5%
    change since 2000 (was #16,819)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #20,565Elmi1,289239,523
    #20,574Follmer1,288239,709

    Who is named Carns

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

    96% of people named Carns identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    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 Carns

    Carns has the Soundex code C652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C652.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Carns come from?
    Variant of Cairns.
    How common is the surname Carns?
    1,288 people in the United States had the surname Carns in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,709 Americans. It ranked 20,574th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Carns?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Carns identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Carns getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,562 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,288 in 2010, down 18%.