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    The surname Confer

    A surname, carried by 3,657 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C516

    Confer: #8,951 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Confer #8,951, 3,657 people Confer: #8,951 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Confer #8,951, 3,657 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Confer is more common than 94.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,657 people named Confer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,426 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,433.

    #8,951
    rank among US surnames
    3,657
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,789)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,944Koger3,66084,357
    #8,946Blackstone3,65984,380
    #8,950Clyde3,65884,403
    #8,951Starcher3,65784,426
    #8,954Lavalley3,65684,449
    #8,956Cauthen3,65584,472
    #8,959Mendonca3,65484,495

    Who is named Confer

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

    93% of people named Confer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Confer

    Confer has the Soundex code C516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C516.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Confer?
    3,657 people in the United States had the surname Confer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,426 Americans. It ranked 8,951st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Confer?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Confer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Confer getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,433 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,657 in 2010, up 6.5%.