How common is the surname Fertig?

1,702 people in the United States had the surname Fertig in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,402 Americans. It ranked 16,781st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Fertig?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Fertig identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Fertig getting more or less common?

More common. 1,688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,702 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Fertig

A German surname, carried by 1,702 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fertig is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Fertig.

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 1,702 people named Fertig in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,402 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,688.

#16,781

rank among US surnames

1,702

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #15,835)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,775	Coatney	1,703	181,295
#16,781	Dechant	1,702	181,402
#16,789	Piggott	1,701	181,508

Who is named Fertig

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

93% of people named Fertig identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
Two or more races 1.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Ferdig

Surnames that sound like Fertig

Freitag

Fertig has the Soundex code F632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F632.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Fertig come from?: Borrowed from German Fertig.
How common is the surname Fertig?: 1,702 people in the United States had the surname Fertig in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,402 Americans. It ranked 16,781st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fertig?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Fertig identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Fertig getting more or less common?: More common. 1,688 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,702 in 2010, up 0.8%.
What are other spellings of Fertig?: Ferdig.