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    The surname Clack

    A surname, carried by 3,505 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C420

    Clack: #9,286 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Clack #9,286, 3,505 people Clack: #9,286 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Clack #9,286, 3,505 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Clack is more common than 94.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,505 people named Clack in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 88,087 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,389.

    #9,286
    rank among US surnames
    3,505
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.4%
    change since 2000 (was #8,884)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,279Spies3,50888,012
    #9,281Tarter3,50788,037
    #9,283Creasy3,50688,062
    #9,286Clack3,50588,087
    #9,289Leboeuf3,50488,112
    #9,291Heald3,50388,137
    #9,293Slusser3,50288,163

    Who is named Clack

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

    72% of people named Clack identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Clack

    Clack has the Soundex code C420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Clack?
    3,505 people in the United States had the surname Clack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,087 Americans. It ranked 9,286th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Clack?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Clack identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Clack getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,389 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,505 in 2010, up 3.4%.