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The surname Hostetter

A surname, carried by 4,960 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H233

Hostetter: #6,799 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hostetter #6,799, 4,960 people Hostetter: #6,799 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hostetter #6,799, 4,960 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hostetter is more common than 95.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,960 people named Hostetter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,247 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,798.

#6,799
rank among US surnames
4,960
people in 2010
1.7
per 100,000 Americans
+3.4%
change since 2000 (was #6,520)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#6,793Fuhrman4,96562,184
#6,796Steelman4,96462,197
#6,798Silvas4,96362,209
#6,799Hostetter4,96062,247

Who is named Hostetter

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

96% of people named Hostetter identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hostetter

Hostetter has the Soundex code H233, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H233.

Questions

How common is the surname Hostetter?
4,960 people in the United States had the surname Hostetter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,247 Americans. It ranked 6,799th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hostetter?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hostetter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
Is the surname Hostetter getting more or less common?
More common. 4,798 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,960 in 2010, up 3.4%.