The surname Scearce
A surname, carried by 1,471 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,471 people named Scearce in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,888 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,393.
#18,685
rank among US surnames
1,471
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+5.6%
change since 2000 (was #18,345)
Who is named Scearce
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Scearce identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Scearce
Scearce has the Soundex code S620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Scearce?
- 1,471 people in the United States had the surname Scearce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,888 Americans. It ranked 18,685th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Scearce?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Scearce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Scearce getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,393 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,471 in 2010, up 5.6%.