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    The surname Derr

    A German surname, carried by 7,456 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D600

    Derr: #4,749 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Derr #4,749, 7,456 people Derr: #4,749 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Derr #4,749, 7,456 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Derr is more common than 97.1% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Derr.

    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 7,456 people named Derr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,409 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,411.

    #4,749
    rank among US surnames
    7,456
    people in 2010
    2.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #4,428)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,740Manzanares7,48041,276
    #4,741Palomo7,47841,287
    #4,742Usher7,47741,293
    #4,743Jablonski7,46941,337
    #4,744Hecht7,46641,354
    #4,745Freund7,46541,359
    #4,746Piatt7,46341,370

    Who is named Derr

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

    93% of people named Derr identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Derr

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Derr come from?
    Borrowed from German Derr.
    How common is the surname Derr?
    7,456 people in the United States had the surname Derr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,409 Americans. It ranked 4,749th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Derr?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Derr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Derr getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,411 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,456 in 2010, up 0.6%.