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    The surname Marrow

    A surname, carried by 3,656 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M600

    Marrow: #8,954 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Marrow #8,954, 3,656 people Marrow: #8,954 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Marrow #8,954, 3,656 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Marrow is more common than 94.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,656 people named Marrow in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,449 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,283.

    #8,954
    rank among US surnames
    3,656
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.4%
    change since 2000 (was #9,134)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,946Blackstone3,65984,380
    #8,950Clyde3,65884,403
    #8,951Starcher3,65784,426
    #8,954Lavalley3,65684,449
    #8,956Cauthen3,65584,472
    #8,959Mendonca3,65484,495
    #8,962Perlman3,65384,518

    Who is named Marrow

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

    48% of people named Marrow identified as Black (not Hispanic), 44% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 48%
    • White (not Hispanic) 44%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Marrow

    Marrow has the Soundex code M600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Marrow?
    3,656 people in the United States had the surname Marrow in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,449 Americans. It ranked 8,954th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Marrow?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Marrow identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 44% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Marrow getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,283 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,656 in 2010, up 11%.