Barkus

English

Etymology

Various origins:

• A reduced form of Barkhouse, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a tannery.
• Borrowed from Lithuanian Barkus, a variant of Bartkus.
• Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Barkus, a surname with an unexplained origin.

Proper noun

Barkus (plural Barkuses)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Barkus is the 39555^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 556 individuals. Barkus is most common among White (69.96%) and Black/African American (24.1%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barkus”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.