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    The surname Carraway

    A surname, carried by 4,103 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C600

    Carraway: #8,080 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Carraway #8,080, 4,103 people Carraway: #8,080 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Carraway #8,080, 4,103 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carraway is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,103 people named Carraway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,249 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,937.

    #8,080
    rank among US surnames
    4,103
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,782)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,072McCarley4,10675,194
    #8,073Kinley4,10575,212
    #8,076Lovely4,10475,230
    #8,080Carraway4,10375,249
    #8,082Villavicencio4,10275,267
    #8,084Trail4,10175,285
    #8,087Debord4,10075,304

    Who is named Carraway

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

    66% of people named Carraway identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 30%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Carraway

    Carraway has the Soundex code C600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Carraway?
    4,103 people in the United States had the surname Carraway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,249 Americans. It ranked 8,080th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Carraway?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Carraway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Carraway getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,937 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,103 in 2010, up 4.2%.