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    The surname Causer

    A French occupational surname, carried by 537 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C260

    Causer: #40,672 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Causer #40,672, 537 people Causer: #40,672 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Causer #40,672, 537 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Causer is more common than 74.9% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    Probably an occupational surname for a maker of leggings or other apparel for legs and feet, from Old French chausse (“footwear, leggings”) + -er.

    Causer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 537 people named Causer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 574,945 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 528.

    #40,672
    rank among US surnames
    537
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.7%
    change since 2000 (was #39,240)

    Who is named Causer

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

    83% of people named Causer identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 9.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    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 Causer

    Causer has the Soundex code C260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C260.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Causer come from?
    Probably an occupational surname for a maker of leggings or other apparel for legs and feet, from Old French chausse (“footwear, leggings”) + -er.
    How common is the surname Causer?
    537 people in the United States had the surname Causer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 574,945 Americans. It ranked 40,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Causer?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Causer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Causer?
    Causer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Causer getting more or less common?
    More common. 528 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 537 in 2010, up 1.7%.