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The surname Scarboro

A surname, carried by 1,504 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S616

Scarboro: #18,411 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scarboro #18,411, 1,504 people Scarboro: #18,411 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scarboro #18,411, 1,504 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scarboro is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

Variant of Scarborough.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,504 people named Scarboro in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,283 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,275.

#18,411
rank among US surnames
1,504
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+18%
change since 2000 (was #19,575)

Who is named Scarboro

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

73% of people named Scarboro identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 73%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Scarboro

Scarboro has the Soundex code S616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S616.

Questions

Where does the surname Scarboro come from?
Variant of Scarborough.
How common is the surname Scarboro?
1,504 people in the United States had the surname Scarboro in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,283 Americans. It ranked 18,411th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Scarboro?
In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Scarboro identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Scarboro getting more or less common?
More common. 1,275 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,504 in 2010, up 18%.