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The surname Starbuck

A surname, carried by 2,284 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S361

Starbuck: #13,349 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Starbuck #13,349, 2,284 people Starbuck: #13,349 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Starbuck #13,349, 2,284 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Starbuck is more common than 91.8% of them.

Origin

A mutation of the placename Starbeck (“an area in North Yorkshire, England”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,284 people named Starbuck in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 135,178 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,151.

#13,349
rank among US surnames
2,284
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+6.2%
change since 2000 (was #13,058)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#13,344Stroupe2,285135,118
#13,349Starbuck2,284135,178
#13,356Forst2,283135,237
#13,357Knobloch2,282135,296

Who is named Starbuck

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

94% of people named Starbuck identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Starbuck

Starbuck has the Soundex code S361, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S361.

Questions

Where does the surname Starbuck come from?
A mutation of the placename Starbeck (“an area in North Yorkshire, England”).
How common is the surname Starbuck?
2,284 people in the United States had the surname Starbuck in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 135,178 Americans. It ranked 13,349th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Starbuck?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Starbuck identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Starbuck getting more or less common?
More common. 2,151 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,284 in 2010, up 6.2%.