How common is the surname Easter?

13,036 people in the United States had the surname Easter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,684 Americans. It ranked 2,769th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Easter?

Ben Easter, American actor and photographer, followed by Mitch Easter.

Where is the surname Easter most common?

Wikidata records people named Easter in the United States.

How do you pronounce Easter?

Easter is /ˈistəɹ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Easter getting more or less common?

More common. 11,941 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,036 in 2010, up 9.2%.

The surname Easter

A surname, carried by 13,036 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈistəɹ/ 2 syllables Soundex E236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Easter is more common than 98.3% of them.

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English ester, from Old English ēastre, seemingly from Ēastre, a proposed Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn whose festival is thought to have been celebrated around the vernal equinox. Further from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ, derived from either Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn; east”) or, more semantically plausible, from *austrą, *auzrą, a metathesized form of *wazrą (“spring (season)”), *-ǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”). The English word is cognate with German Low German Oostern (“Easter”), Old High German ōstarūn (modern German Ostern) and is possibly a doublet of east. Despite a modern folk etymology, not related to Ishtar. The verb is derived from the noun.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 13,036 people named Easter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 23,684 Americans. That is up 9.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,941.

#2,769

rank among US surnames

13,036

people in 2010

4.4

per 100,000 Americans

+9.2%

change since 2000 (was #2,773)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,760	Lassiter	13,066	23,630
#2,761	Willett	13,065	23,631
#2,762	Graff	13,058	23,644
#2,763	Bachman	13,057	23,646
#2,764	Barkley	13,051	23,657
#2,765	Blank	13,050	23,659
#2,766	Croft	13,047	23,664

Who is named Easter

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

67% of people named Easter identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 67%
Black (not Hispanic) 27%
Two or more races 2.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Easters

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Ben Easter
American actor and photographer, born 1979
Mitch Easter
American musician and record producer, born 1954

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Easter

Easter has the Soundex code E236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E236.

Questions

Where does the surname Easter come from?: The noun is derived from Middle English ester, from Old English ēastre, seemingly from Ēastre, a proposed Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn whose festival is thought to have been celebrated around the vernal equinox. Further from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ, derived from…
How common is the surname Easter?: 13,036 people in the United States had the surname Easter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 23,684 Americans. It ranked 2,769th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Easter?: In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Easter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Easter?: Ben Easter, American actor and photographer, followed by Mitch Easter.
Where is the surname Easter most common?: Wikidata records people named Easter in the United States.
How do you pronounce Easter?: Easter is /ˈistəɹ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Easter getting more or less common?: More common. 11,941 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,036 in 2010, up 9.2%.