How common is the surname Detwiler?

4,849 people in the United States had the surname Detwiler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,672 Americans. It ranked 6,918th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Detwiler?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Detwiler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Detwiler getting more or less common?

More common. 4,767 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,849 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Detwiler

A surname, carried by 4,849 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex D346

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Detwiler is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,849 people named Detwiler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 63,672 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,767.

#6,918

rank among US surnames

4,849

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #6,555)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,909	Swinney	4,856	63,580
#6,912	Koval	4,855	63,593
#6,913	Gasca	4,854	63,606
#6,914	Fortney	4,853	63,620
#6,915	Gwinn	4,852	63,633
#6,916	Cassel	4,851	63,646
#6,917	Jahn	4,850	63,659

Who is named Detwiler

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

95% of people named Detwiler identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Detwiler

Detweiler

Detwiler 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 Detwiler?: 4,849 people in the United States had the surname Detwiler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 63,672 Americans. It ranked 6,918th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Detwiler?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Detwiler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Detwiler getting more or less common?: More common. 4,767 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,849 in 2010, up 1.7%.