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    The surname Seck

    A surname, carried by 1,364 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S200

    Seck: #19,747 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Seck #19,747, 1,364 people Seck: #19,747 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Seck #19,747, 1,364 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seck is more common than 87.8% of them.

    Origin

    Borrowed from both from Wolof and German Seck.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,364 people named Seck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,353 Americans. That is up 52% since 2000, when the Census counted 899.

    #19,747
    rank among US surnames
    1,364
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +51.7%
    change since 2000 (was #25,735)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,747Bohne1,364226,353
    #19,755Wertman1,363226,519

    Who is named Seck

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

    63% of people named Seck identified as Black (not Hispanic), 32% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 63%
    • White (not Hispanic) 32%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Seck

    Seck has the Soundex code S200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Seck come from?
    Borrowed from both from Wolof and German Seck.
    How common is the surname Seck?
    1,364 people in the United States had the surname Seck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,353 Americans. It ranked 19,747th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seck?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Seck identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 32% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Seck getting more or less common?
    More common. 899 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,364 in 2010, up 52%.