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The surname Frazier

A surname, carried by 92,152 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F626

Frazier: #335 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Frazier #335, 92,152 people Frazier: #335 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Frazier #335, 92,152 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Frazier is more common than 99.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 92,152 people named Frazier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 3,350 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 88,325.

#335
rank among US surnames
92,152
people in 2010
31
per 100,000 Americans
+4.3%
change since 2000 (was #314)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#326Chambers94,9883,250
#327Caldwell93,9443,286
#328Beck93,7863,292
#329Lambert93,6783,296
#330Miranda93,6283,298
#331Byrd92,9043,323
#332Craig92,5073,338

Who is named Frazier

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

56% of people named Frazier identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 56%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 37%
  • Two or more races 2.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Fraziers

26 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • Joe Frazier
    American boxer (1944–2011)
  • Walt Frazier
    American basketball player (born 1945)
  • Herman Frazier
    American track and field athlete, college athletics administrator, born 1954
  • Brandon Frazier
    American pair skater, born 1992
  • Charles Frazier
    American novelist, born 1950
  • LaToya Ruby Frazier
    American photographer and professor (born 1982)
  • E. Franklin Frazier
    American sociologist and writer (1894–1962)
  • Todd Frazier
    Baseball player from the United States, born 1986
  • Tim Frazier
    American basketball player (born 1990)
  • Edwin Frazier
    American ice hockey goaltender (1907–1971)
  • James B. Frazier
    American politician (1856-1937)
  • Lynn Frazier
    American politician (1874–1947)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Frazier

Frazier has the Soundex code F626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F626.

Questions

How common is the surname Frazier?
92,152 people in the United States had the surname Frazier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,350 Americans. It ranked 335th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Frazier?
In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Frazier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Frazier?
Joe Frazier, American boxer (1944–2011), followed by Walt Frazier.
Where is the surname Frazier most common?
Wikidata records people named Frazier in the United States.
Is the surname Frazier getting more or less common?
More common. 88,325 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 92,152 in 2010, up 4.3%.