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    The surname Deist

    A German surname, carried by 534 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D230

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deist is more common than 74.8% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Deist, from a small place called Deisten near Celle and Hanover.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 534 people named Deist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 578,175 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 534.

    #40,856
    rank among US surnames
    534
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #38,890)

    Who is named Deist

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

    99% of people named Deist identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 99%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Deist

    Deist has the Soundex code D230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D230.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Deist come from?
    Borrowed from German Deist, from a small place called Deisten near Celle and Hanover.
    How common is the surname Deist?
    534 people in the United States had the surname Deist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 578,175 Americans. It ranked 40,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deist?
    In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Deist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    Is the surname Deist getting more or less common?
    About as common. 534 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 534 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.