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The surname Detweiler

A surname, carried by 5,119 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D346

Detweiler: #6,616 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Detweiler #6,616, 5,119 people Detweiler: #6,616 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Detweiler #6,616, 5,119 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Detweiler is more common than 95.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,119 people named Detweiler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 60,314 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,071.

#6,616
rank among US surnames
5,119
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+25.7%
change since 2000 (was #7,535)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,611Hazlett5,12260,278
#6,612Shaner5,12160,290
#6,613Kellar5,12060,302
#6,616Detweiler5,11960,314

Who is named Detweiler

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

98% of people named Detweiler identified as white (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 98%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%
  • Two or more races 0.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Detweiler

Detweiler has the Soundex code D346, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D346.

Questions

How common is the surname Detweiler?
5,119 people in the United States had the surname Detweiler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 60,314 Americans. It ranked 6,616th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Detweiler?
In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Detweiler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Detweiler getting more or less common?
More common. 4,071 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,119 in 2010, up 26%.