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    The surname Eager

    A surname, carried by 2,305 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E260

    Eager: #13,246 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Eager #13,246, 2,305 people Eager: #13,246 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Eager #13,246, 2,305 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Eager 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 2,305 people named Eager in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,946 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,174.

    #13,246
    rank among US surnames
    2,305
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #12,945)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,241Hoadley2,306133,888
    #13,246Yousef2,305133,946
    #13,251Amey2,304134,004
    #13,255Blackledge2,303134,062

    Who is named Eager

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

    88% of people named Eager identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Eager

    Eager has the Soundex code E260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Eager?
    2,305 people in the United States had the surname Eager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,946 Americans. It ranked 13,246th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Eager?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Eager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Eager getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,305 in 2010, up 6.0%.