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    The surname Duck

    An English nickname surname, carried by 4,521 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /dʌk/ 1 syllable Soundex D200

    Duck: #7,367 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Duck #7,367, 4,521 people Duck: #7,367 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Duck #7,367, 4,521 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Duck is more common than 95.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck.

    Duck is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,521 people named Duck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,291 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,242.

    #7,367
    rank among US surnames
    4,521
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.6%
    change since 2000 (was #7,253)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,361Croteau4,52568,231
    #7,363Lacombe4,52468,246
    #7,366Midkiff4,52368,261
    #7,367Duck4,52168,291
    #7,368Eckhardt4,52068,307
    #7,369Cassady4,51968,322

    Who is named Duck

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

    77% of people named Duck identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 16%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    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 Duck

    Duck has the Soundex code D200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D200.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Duck come from?
    The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck.
    How common is the surname Duck?
    4,521 people in the United States had the surname Duck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,291 Americans. It ranked 7,367th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Duck?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Duck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
    How do you pronounce Duck?
    Duck is /dʌk/, one syllable.
    What type of surname is Duck?
    Duck is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Duck getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,242 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,521 in 2010, up 6.6%.