Last Name SARGENT

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Meaning The sergeant or serjeant, an officer of the law, a policeman. Few surnames have undergone more varieties of spelling than this.
Origin English, French, Greek, Irish

Rank 1,190 (2000 US census) 968 (1990 US census)
Count 27,024 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 87.56%, or 23662 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 7.61%, or 2057 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.4%, or 108 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.17%, or 316 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.48%, or 400 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.78%, or 481 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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