How common is the surname Claar?

2,090 people in the United States had the surname Claar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,725 Americans. It ranked 14,316th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Claar?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Claar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Claar getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,090 in 2010, down 2.1%.

The surname Claar

A surname, carried by 2,090 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Claar is more common than 91.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,090 people named Claar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 147,725 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,134.

#14,316

rank among US surnames

2,090

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-2.1%

change since 2000 (was #13,137)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,307	Rakowski	2,092	147,584
#14,312	Dwight	2,091	147,654
#14,316	Imler	2,090	147,725

Who is named Claar

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

96% of people named Claar identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Two or more races 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Claar

Claar has the Soundex code C460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C460.

Questions

How common is the surname Claar?: 2,090 people in the United States had the surname Claar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,725 Americans. It ranked 14,316th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Claar?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Claar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Claar getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,090 in 2010, down 2.1%.