The surname Ruark
A surname, carried by 2,690 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex R620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,690 people named Ruark in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,775 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,695.
#11,653
rank among US surnames
2,690
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
-0.2%
change since 2000 (was #10,855)
Who is named Ruark
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Ruark identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Ruark has the Soundex code R620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Ruark?
- 2,690 people in the United States had the surname Ruark in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,775 Americans. It ranked 11,653rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ruark?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Ruark identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Ruark getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,695 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,690 in 2010, down 0.2%.