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    The surname Hooser

    A surname, carried by 1,156 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H260

    Hooser: #22,301 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hooser #22,301, 1,156 people Hooser: #22,301 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hooser #22,301, 1,156 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hooser is more common than 86.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,156 people named Hooser in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,081 Americans. That is down 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,225.

    #22,301
    rank among US surnames
    1,156
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #20,219)

    Who is named Hooser

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

    90% of people named Hooser identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hooser

    Hooser has the Soundex code H260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hooser?
    1,156 people in the United States had the surname Hooser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,081 Americans. It ranked 22,301st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hooser?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Hooser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hooser getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,225 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,156 in 2010, down 5.6%.