The surname Contractor
An occupational surname, carried by 542 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex C536
Origin
From contractor, an occupational surname for a supplier of goods or services; this surname originated in India, but derives from the English word.
Contractor is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 542 people named Contractor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 569,641 Americans. That is up 34% since 2000, when the Census counted 406.
Who is named Contractor
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Contractor identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 6.8% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.9% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 88%
- White (not Hispanic) 6.8%
- Two or more races 3.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Contractor has the Soundex code C536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C536.
Questions
- Where does the surname Contractor come from?
- From contractor, an occupational surname for a supplier of goods or services; this surname originated in India, but derives from the English word.
- How common is the surname Contractor?
- 542 people in the United States had the surname Contractor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 569,641 Americans. It ranked 40,371st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Contractor?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Contractor identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 6.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Contractor?
- Contractor is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Contractor getting more or less common?
- More common. 406 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 542 in 2010, up 34%.