How common is the surname Marasigan?

1,193 people in the United States had the surname Marasigan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. It ranked 21,790th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Marasigan getting more or less common?

More common. 850 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,193 in 2010, up 40%.

The surname Marasigan

A Tagalog surname, carried by 1,193 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex M622

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Marasigan is more common than 86.6% of them.

Origin

Tagalog origin

Filipino surname, from Tagalog Marasigan. Mostly found in Batangas, Quezon and Oriental Mindoro provinces.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,193 people named Marasigan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. That is up 40% since 2000, when the Census counted 850.

#21,790

rank among US surnames

1,193

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+40.4%

change since 2000 (was #26,876)

Who is named Marasigan

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

89% of people named Marasigan identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 5.2% as two or more races and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Asian and Pacific Islander 89%
Two or more races 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
White (not Hispanic) 2.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Marasigan

Marsico

Marasigan has the Soundex code M622, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M622.

Questions

Where does the surname Marasigan come from?: Filipino surname, from Tagalog Marasigan. Mostly found in Batangas, Quezon and Oriental Mindoro provinces.
How common is the surname Marasigan?: 1,193 people in the United States had the surname Marasigan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 258,798 Americans. It ranked 21,790th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Marasigan?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Marasigan identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 5.2% as two or more races.
Is the surname Marasigan getting more or less common?: More common. 850 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,193 in 2010, up 40%.