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    The surname Husk

    A surname, carried by 1,471 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H200

    Husk: #18,685 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Husk #18,685, 1,471 people Husk: #18,685 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Husk #18,685, 1,471 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Husk is more common than 88.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,471 people named Husk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,888 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,451.

    #18,685
    rank among US surnames
    1,471
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #17,791)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,676Purpura1,472209,746
    #18,685Gettinger1,471209,888
    #18,694Klose1,470210,031

    Who is named Husk

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

    95% of people named Husk identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Husk

    Husk has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Husk?
    1,471 people in the United States had the surname Husk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,888 Americans. It ranked 18,685th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Husk?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Husk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Husk getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,451 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,471 in 2010, up 1.4%.