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    The surname Starns

    A surname, carried by 1,211 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S365

    Starns: #21,553 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Starns #21,553, 1,211 people Starns: #21,553 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Starns #21,553, 1,211 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Starns is more common than 86.7% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,211 people named Starns in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 254,951 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,092.

    #21,553
    rank among US surnames
    1,211
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.9%
    change since 2000 (was #22,098)

    Who is named Starns

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

    90% of people named Starns identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Starns

    Starns has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Starns?
    1,211 people in the United States had the surname Starns in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 254,951 Americans. It ranked 21,553rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Starns?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Starns identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Starns getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,092 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,211 in 2010, up 11%.