The surname Scarbrough
A surname, carried by 8,327 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S616
Origin
Variant of Scarborough.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 8,327 people named Scarbrough in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,078 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,100.
#4,256
rank among US surnames
8,327
people in 2010
2.8
per 100,000 Americans
+2.8%
change since 2000 (was #4,023)
Who is named Scarbrough
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Scarbrough identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Black (not Hispanic) 10%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Scarbrough
Scarbrough 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 Scarbrough come from?
- Variant of Scarborough.
- How common is the surname Scarbrough?
- 8,327 people in the United States had the surname Scarbrough in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,078 Americans. It ranked 4,256th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Scarbrough?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Scarbrough identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Scarbrough getting more or less common?
- More common. 8,100 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,327 in 2010, up 2.8%.