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    The surname Feder

    A German surname, carried by 2,884 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F360

    Feder: #11,026 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Feder #11,026, 2,884 people Feder: #11,026 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Feder #11,026, 2,884 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Feder is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Feder.

    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 2,884 people named Feder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,055 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,708.

    #11,026
    rank among US surnames
    2,884
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.5%
    change since 2000 (was #10,807)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,021Bourassa2,886106,980
    #11,025Milazzo2,885107,018
    #11,026Feder2,884107,055
    #11,030Hauge2,883107,092
    #11,031Chambless2,882107,129
    #11,035Foret2,881107,166

    Who is named Feder

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

    96% of people named Feder identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Feder

    Feder has the Soundex code F360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F360.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Feder come from?
    Borrowed from German Feder.
    How common is the surname Feder?
    2,884 people in the United States had the surname Feder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,055 Americans. It ranked 11,026th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Feder?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Feder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Feder getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,708 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,884 in 2010, up 6.5%.