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    The surname Scurlock

    A surname, carried by 2,544 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S642

    Scurlock: #12,231 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Scurlock #12,231, 2,544 people Scurlock: #12,231 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Scurlock #12,231, 2,544 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Scurlock is more common than 92.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,544 people named Scurlock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,362 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,452.

    #12,231
    rank among US surnames
    2,544
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #11,712)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,227Greenhalgh2,546121,267
    #12,229Check2,545121,315
    #12,231Dumond2,544121,362
    #12,236Maly2,543121,410
    #12,238Doby2,542121,458

    Who is named Scurlock

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

    67% of people named Scurlock identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 67%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 28%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Scurlock

    Scurlock has the Soundex code S642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S642.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Scurlock?
    2,544 people in the United States had the surname Scurlock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,362 Americans. It ranked 12,231st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Scurlock?
    In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Scurlock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Scurlock getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,452 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,544 in 2010, up 3.8%.