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    The surname Fielder

    A surname, carried by 6,917 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F436

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fielder is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,917 people named Fielder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,636 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,947.

    #5,068
    rank among US surnames
    6,917
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #4,668)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,064Salyer6,92644,578
    #5,066Verduzco6,92344,597
    #5,067Munro6,91844,629
    #5,068Rubino6,91744,636

    Who is named Fielder

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

    75% of people named Fielder identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Fielders

    3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Prince Fielder
      American baseball player, born 1984
    • Cecil Fielder
      American baseball player, born 1963
    • Harry Fielder
      British actor (1940-2021)

    Notable Fielders come mostly from the United States (2) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fielder

    Fielder has the Soundex code F436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F436.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Fielder?
    6,917 people in the United States had the surname Fielder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,636 Americans. It ranked 5,068th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fielder?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Fielder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Fielder?
    Prince Fielder, American baseball player, followed by Cecil Fielder.
    Where is the surname Fielder most common?
    Wikidata records people named Fielder in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    Is the surname Fielder getting more or less common?
    Less common. 6,947 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,917 in 2010, down 0.4%.