How common is the surname Dressler?

4,470 people in the United States had the surname Dressler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,071 Americans. It ranked 7,455th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dressler?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dressler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dressler getting more or less common?

More common. 4,225 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,470 in 2010, up 5.8%.

The surname Dressler

A German surname, carried by 4,470 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D624

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dressler is more common than 95.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Dressler.

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 4,470 people named Dressler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,071 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,225.

#7,455

rank among US surnames

4,470

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+5.8%

change since 2000 (was #7,274)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,446	Topete	4,473	69,024
#7,450	Balch	4,472	69,040
#7,453	Deen	4,471	69,055
#7,455	Dressler	4,470	69,071
#7,457	Bessette	4,469	69,086
#7,459	Swaney	4,468	69,102
#7,461	Shockey	4,467	69,117

Who is named Dressler

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

95% of people named Dressler identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Two or more races 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Dresslar

Surnames that sound like Dressler

Dressler has the Soundex code D624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D624.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Dressler come from?: Borrowed from German Dressler.
How common is the surname Dressler?: 4,470 people in the United States had the surname Dressler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,071 Americans. It ranked 7,455th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dressler?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dressler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dressler getting more or less common?: More common. 4,225 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,470 in 2010, up 5.8%.
What are other spellings of Dressler?: Dresslar.