How common is the surname Carrico?

5,673 people in the United States had the surname Carrico in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,424 Americans. It ranked 6,050th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Carrico?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Carrico identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Carrico getting more or less common?

More common. 5,524 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,673 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Carrico

A place surname, carried by 5,673 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Carrico is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

From the Portuguese habitational surname, from carriço (“reed, sedge”).

Carrico 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 5,673 people named Carrico in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,424 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,524.

#6,050

rank among US surnames

5,673

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #5,744)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,041	Carmody	5,688	54,280
#6,043	Svoboda	5,686	54,299
#6,044	Bustillos	5,684	54,318
#6,045	Bivins	5,681	54,347
#6,046	Salvatore	5,680	54,357
#6,047	Chesser	5,675	54,405
#6,049	Helmer	5,674	54,414

Who is named Carrico

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

92% of people named Carrico identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Carrico

Carrico has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

Questions

Where does the surname Carrico come from?: From the Portuguese habitational surname, from carriço (“reed, sedge”).
How common is the surname Carrico?: 5,673 people in the United States had the surname Carrico in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,424 Americans. It ranked 6,050th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Carrico?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Carrico identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Carrico?: Carrico is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Carrico getting more or less common?: More common. 5,524 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,673 in 2010, up 2.7%.