The surname Poarch
A German surname, carried by 1,419 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex P620
Origin
German origin
Perhaps an altered spelling of German Borsch.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,419 people named Poarch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 217,580 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,381.
Who is named Poarch
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Poarch identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Poarch has the Soundex code P620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P620.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Poarch come from?
- Perhaps an altered spelling of German Borsch.
- How common is the surname Poarch?
- 1,419 people in the United States had the surname Poarch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 217,580 Americans. It ranked 19,145th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Poarch?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Poarch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Poarch getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,381 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,419 in 2010, up 2.8%.