Belk

At the 2020 census, 5,651 Americans bore the surname Belk — 5,882nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,651
Rank: 5,882nd
How common: 1 in 52,900
Per 100,000: 1.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.4%
Black, not Hispanic 21.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Belk

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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.