Barkley

Barkley is the 2,758th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,719 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,500.

By the numbers

People: 12,719
Rank: 2,758th
How common: 1 in 23,500
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

Variant of Berkeley.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Barkley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.0%
Black, not Hispanic 20.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Barkley

Alben W. Barkley (1877–1956)vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953
Charles Barkley (born 1963)American basketball player
Ross Barkley (born 1993)English association football player
Dean Barkley (born 1950)American politician
Saquon Barkley (born 1997)American football player
Russell Barkley (born 1949)American psychologist and author

People named Barkley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Barkley

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.