Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Kaster

    A surname, carried by 2,453 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K236

    Kaster: #12,616 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kaster #12,616, 2,453 people Kaster: #12,616 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kaster #12,616, 2,453 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kaster is more common than 92.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,453 people named Kaster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,864 Americans. That is up 37% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,797.

    #12,616
    rank among US surnames
    2,453
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +36.5%
    change since 2000 (was #15,061)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,607Lanford2,455125,762
    #12,613Durgin2,454125,813
    #12,616Gordan2,453125,864
    #12,622Hao2,452125,916

    Who is named Kaster

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

    94% of people named Kaster identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kaster

    Kaster has the Soundex code K236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K236.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kaster?
    2,453 people in the United States had the surname Kaster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,864 Americans. It ranked 12,616th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kaster?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kaster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kaster getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,797 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,453 in 2010, up 37%.