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    The surname Crater

    A surname, carried by 1,605 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C636

    Crater: #17,537 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Crater #17,537, 1,605 people Crater: #17,537 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Crater #17,537, 1,605 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crater is more common than 89.2% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,605 people named Crater in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 192,365 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,554.

    #17,537
    rank among US surnames
    1,605
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.3%
    change since 2000 (was #16,899)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,530Kittelson1,606192,245
    #17,537Lipsky1,605192,365
    #17,541Rommel1,604192,485

    Who is named Crater

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

    85% of people named Crater identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Crater

    Crater has the Soundex code C636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C636.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Crater?
    1,605 people in the United States had the surname Crater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 192,365 Americans. It ranked 17,537th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Crater?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Crater identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Crater getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,554 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,605 in 2010, up 3.3%.