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The surname Harger

A surname, carried by 2,740 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H626

Harger: #11,484 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Harger #11,484, 2,740 people Harger: #11,484 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Harger #11,484, 2,740 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harger is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,740 people named Harger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 112,681 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,685.

#11,484
rank among US surnames
2,740
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+2%
change since 2000 (was #10,885)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,476Araya2,742112,599
#11,478Heineman2,741112,640
#11,484Decicco2,740112,681
#11,488Mangus2,739112,722
#11,493Duffin2,738112,763

Who is named Harger

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

92% of people named Harger identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as two or more races and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Two or more races 3.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Harger

Harger has the Soundex code H626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H626.

Questions

How common is the surname Harger?
2,740 people in the United States had the surname Harger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 112,681 Americans. It ranked 11,484th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Harger?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Harger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as two or more races.
Is the surname Harger getting more or less common?
More common. 2,685 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,740 in 2010, up 2.0%.