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    The surname Caster

    A surname, carried by 3,208 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C236

    Caster: #10,041 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Caster #10,041, 3,208 people Caster: #10,041 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Caster #10,041, 3,208 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Caster is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,208 people named Caster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,242 Americans. That is up 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,065.

    #10,041
    rank among US surnames
    3,208
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.7%
    change since 2000 (was #9,733)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,034Backman3,21096,182
    #10,036Eccles3,20996,212
    #10,041Caster3,20896,242
    #10,044Lieb3,20796,272
    #10,046Pound3,20696,302
    #10,050Dasher3,20596,332

    Who is named Caster

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

    80% of people named Caster identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 80%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Caster

    Caster has the Soundex code C236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C236.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Caster?
    3,208 people in the United States had the surname Caster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,242 Americans. It ranked 10,041st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Caster?
    In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Caster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Caster getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,208 in 2010, up 4.7%.