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The surname Vargo

A surname, carried by 7,787 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V620

Vargo: #4,553 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vargo #4,553, 7,787 people Vargo: #4,553 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vargo #4,553, 7,787 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vargo is more common than 97.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,787 people named Vargo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,649 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,990.

#4,553
rank among US surnames
7,787
people in 2010
2.6
per 100,000 Americans
-2.5%
change since 2000 (was #4,104)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#4,547Buchholz7,79039,634
#4,549Pitman7,78939,639
#4,550Wooldridge7,78839,644
#4,553Vargo7,78739,649
#4,554Kremer7,78439,664

Who is named Vargo

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

94% of people named Vargo identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 1.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vargo

Vargo has the Soundex code V620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V620.

Questions

How common is the surname Vargo?
7,787 people in the United States had the surname Vargo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,649 Americans. It ranked 4,553rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vargo?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Vargo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Vargo getting more or less common?
Less common. 7,990 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,787 in 2010, down 2.5%.