How common is the surname Karch?

1,506 people in the United States had the surname Karch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. It ranked 18,385th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Karch?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Karch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Karch getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,506 in 2010, down 6.1%.

The surname Karch

A surname, carried by 1,506 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Karch is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,506 people named Karch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. That is down 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,603.

#18,385

rank among US surnames

1,506

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-6.1%

change since 2000 (was #16,502)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,378	Prohaska	1,507	204,874
#18,385	Roder	1,506	205,010

Who is named Karch

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

94% of people named Karch identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Karch

Karch has the Soundex code K620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K620.

Questions

How common is the surname Karch?: 1,506 people in the United States had the surname Karch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. It ranked 18,385th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Karch?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Karch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Karch getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,506 in 2010, down 6.1%.