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    The surname Deer

    A surname, carried by 2,888 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D600

    Deer: #11,013 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Deer #11,013, 2,888 people Deer: #11,013 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Deer #11,013, 2,888 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deer is more common than 93.2% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,888 people named Deer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,906 Americans. That is up 9.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,640.

    #11,013
    rank among US surnames
    2,888
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.4%
    change since 2000 (was #11,044)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,007Hipolito2,890106,832
    #11,010Guardiola2,889106,869
    #11,013Gatti2,888106,906
    #11,016Juneau2,887106,943
    #11,021Bourassa2,886106,980

    Who is named Deer

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

    75% of people named Deer identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 11%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 6.2%
    • Two or more races 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Deer

    Deer has the Soundex code D600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Deer?
    2,888 people in the United States had the surname Deer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,906 Americans. It ranked 11,013th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deer?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Deer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Deer getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,640 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,888 in 2010, up 9.4%.