How common is the surname Dittmer?

3,074 people in the United States had the surname Dittmer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,438 Americans. It ranked 10,459th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dittmer?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dittmer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dittmer getting more or less common?

More common. 3,038 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,074 in 2010, up 1.2%.

The surname Dittmer

A surname, carried by 3,074 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D356

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dittmer is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,074 people named Dittmer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 100,438 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,038.

#10,459

rank among US surnames

3,074

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+1.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,822)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,451	Edgington	3,077	100,340
#10,453	Mellen	3,076	100,372
#10,458	Hagar	3,075	100,405
#10,459	Doria	3,074	100,438
#10,462	Stecker	3,073	100,470
#10,465	Janzen	3,072	100,503

Who is named Dittmer

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

95% of people named Dittmer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dittmer

Dittmer has the Soundex code D356, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D356.

Questions

How common is the surname Dittmer?: 3,074 people in the United States had the surname Dittmer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 100,438 Americans. It ranked 10,459th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dittmer?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dittmer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dittmer getting more or less common?: More common. 3,038 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,074 in 2010, up 1.2%.