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The surname Keeter

A surname, carried by 2,459 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K360

Keeter: #12,587 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Keeter #12,587, 2,459 people Keeter: #12,587 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Keeter #12,587, 2,459 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keeter 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 2,459 people named Keeter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 125,557 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,284.

#12,587
rank among US surnames
2,459
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+7.7%
change since 2000 (was #12,466)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,581Storch2,461125,455
#12,584Graver2,460125,506
#12,587Leu2,459125,557
#12,593Roesler2,458125,608

Who is named Keeter

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

92% of people named Keeter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Keeter

Keeter has the Soundex code K360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K360.

Questions

How common is the surname Keeter?
2,459 people in the United States had the surname Keeter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 125,557 Americans. It ranked 12,587th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Keeter?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Keeter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Keeter getting more or less common?
More common. 2,284 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,459 in 2010, up 7.7%.