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    The surname Callister

    A Manx surname, carried by 1,053 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C423

    Callister: #23,957 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Callister #23,957, 1,053 people Callister: #23,957 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Callister #23,957, 1,053 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Callister is more common than 85.2% of them.

    Origin

    Manx origin

    A surname from Manx.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,053 people named Callister in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 293,206 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 852.

    #23,957
    rank among US surnames
    1,053
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23.6%
    change since 2000 (was #26,829)

    Who is named Callister

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Callister identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Collister

    Surnames that sound like Callister

    Callister has the Soundex code C423, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C423.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Callister come from?
    Callister is Manx in origin.
    How common is the surname Callister?
    1,053 people in the United States had the surname Callister in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 293,206 Americans. It ranked 23,957th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Callister?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Callister identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Callister getting more or less common?
    More common. 852 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,053 in 2010, up 24%.
    What are other spellings of Callister?
    Collister.