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    The surname Handler

    A surname, carried by 2,478 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H534

    Handler: #12,510 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Handler #12,510, 2,478 people Handler: #12,510 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Handler #12,510, 2,478 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Handler is more common than 92.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,478 people named Handler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,595 Americans. That is up 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,357.

    #12,510
    rank among US surnames
    2,478
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.1%
    change since 2000 (was #12,137)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,504Gum2,479124,544
    #12,510Shain2,478124,595
    #12,514Freire2,477124,645
    #12,519Ratzlaff2,476124,695

    Who is named Handler

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

    95% of people named Handler identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Handler

    Handler has the Soundex code H534, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H534.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Handler?
    2,478 people in the United States had the surname Handler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,595 Americans. It ranked 12,510th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Handler?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Handler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Handler getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,357 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,478 in 2010, up 5.1%.