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    The surname Marable

    A surname, carried by 3,514 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex M614

    Marable: #9,265 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Marable #9,265, 3,514 people Marable: #9,265 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Marable #9,265, 3,514 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Marable 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 3,514 people named Marable in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,862 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,166.

    #9,265
    rank among US surnames
    3,514
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11%
    change since 2000 (was #9,420)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,257Bakke3,51787,787
    #9,258Krawczyk3,51687,812
    #9,262Gingrich3,51587,837
    #9,265Sickler3,51487,862
    #9,267Deleo3,51387,887
    #9,271Riker3,51287,912
    #9,273Woodside3,51187,937

    Who is named Marable

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

    64% of people named Marable identified as Black (not Hispanic), 29% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 64%
    • White (not Hispanic) 29%
    • Two or more races 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Famous Marables

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Fate Marable
      American musician (1890–1947)
    • Manning Marable
      American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University a, 1950–2011

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Marable

    Marable has the Soundex code M614, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M614.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Marable?
    3,514 people in the United States had the surname Marable in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,862 Americans. It ranked 9,265th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Marable?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Marable identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 29% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Marable?
    Fate Marable, American musician (1890–1947), followed by Manning Marable.
    Where is the surname Marable most common?
    Wikidata records people named Marable in the United States.
    Is the surname Marable getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,166 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,514 in 2010, up 11%.