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The surname Jetter

A surname, carried by 1,045 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex J360

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jetter is more common than 85.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,045 people named Jetter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 295,450 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,213.

#24,090
rank among US surnames
1,045
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
-13.8%
change since 2000 (was #20,367)

Who is named Jetter

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

64% of people named Jetter identified as white (not Hispanic), 29% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 64%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 29%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Jetter

Jetter has the Soundex code J360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J360.

Questions

How common is the surname Jetter?
1,045 people in the United States had the surname Jetter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 295,450 Americans. It ranked 24,090th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jetter?
In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Jetter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 29% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Jetter getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,213 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,045 in 2010, down 14%.