The surname Fite
A surname, carried by 5,656 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex F300
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,656 people named Fite in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,587 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,578.
#6,066
rank among US surnames
5,656
people in 2010
1.9
per 100,000 Americans
+1.4%
change since 2000 (was #5,702)
Who is named Fite
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Fite identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Fite has the Soundex code F300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F300.
Questions
- How common is the surname Fite?
- 5,656 people in the United States had the surname Fite in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,587 Americans. It ranked 6,066th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fite?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Fite identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Fite getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,578 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,656 in 2010, up 1.4%.