The surname Arter
A surname, carried by 1,955 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A636
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,955 people named Arter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 157,926 Americans. That is up 8.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,810.
#15,090
rank among US surnames
1,955
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+8%
change since 2000 (was #14,983)
Who is named Arter
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
74% of people named Arter identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 74%
- Black (not Hispanic) 14%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.3%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Arter has the Soundex code A636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A636.
Questions
- How common is the surname Arter?
- 1,955 people in the United States had the surname Arter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 157,926 Americans. It ranked 15,090th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Arter?
- In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Arter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Arter getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,810 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,955 in 2010, up 8.0%.