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The surname Yarber

A surname, carried by 3,142 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Y616

Yarber: #10,258 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yarber #10,258, 3,142 people Yarber: #10,258 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yarber #10,258, 3,142 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yarber is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,142 people named Yarber in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 98,264 Americans. That is up 8.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,906.

#10,258
rank among US surnames
3,142
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+8.1%
change since 2000 (was #10,186)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,250Orndorff3,14598,170
#10,255Fitzhugh3,14498,202
#10,257Moffat3,14398,233
#10,258Villagrana3,14298,264
#10,260Schoch3,14198,295
#10,265Milford3,14098,327

Who is named Yarber

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

69% of people named Yarber identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 69%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
  • Two or more races 3.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • 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 Yarber

Yarber has the Soundex code Y616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y616.

Questions

How common is the surname Yarber?
3,142 people in the United States had the surname Yarber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 98,264 Americans. It ranked 10,258th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yarber?
In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Yarber identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Yarber getting more or less common?
More common. 2,906 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,142 in 2010, up 8.1%.