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    The surname Deters

    A surname, carried by 2,297 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D362

    Deters: #13,278 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Deters #13,278, 2,297 people Deters: #13,278 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Deters #13,278, 2,297 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deters is more common than 91.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,297 people named Deters in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 134,413 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,251.

    #13,278
    rank among US surnames
    2,297
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #12,616)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,271Rodden2,298134,354
    #13,278Balser2,297134,413
    #13,283Chaput2,296134,471

    Who is named Deters

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

    97% of people named Deters identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Deters

    Deters has the Soundex code D362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D362.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Deters?
    2,297 people in the United States had the surname Deters in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 134,413 Americans. It ranked 13,278th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deters?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Deters identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Deters getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,251 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,297 in 2010, up 2.0%.