How common is the surname Wargo?

4,442 people in the United States had the surname Wargo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,506 Americans. It ranked 7,497th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wargo?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wargo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wargo getting more or less common?

More common. 4,400 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,442 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Wargo

A surname, carried by 4,442 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wargo is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,442 people named Wargo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,506 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,400.

#7,497

rank among US surnames

4,442

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #7,022)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,492	Garfield	4,447	69,428
#7,494	Hepler	4,445	69,459
#7,496	Vong	4,443	69,490
#7,497	Ressler	4,442	69,506
#7,500	Jiles	4,441	69,522

Who is named Wargo

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

96% of people named Wargo identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wargo

Wark

Wargo has the Soundex code W620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W620.

Questions

How common is the surname Wargo?: 4,442 people in the United States had the surname Wargo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,506 Americans. It ranked 7,497th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wargo?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wargo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wargo getting more or less common?: More common. 4,400 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,442 in 2010, up 1.0%.