How common is the surname Kerber?

3,535 people in the United States had the surname Kerber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,340 Americans. It ranked 9,221st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kerber?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Kerber identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kerber getting more or less common?

More common. 2,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,535 in 2010, up 35%.

The surname Kerber

A surname, carried by 3,535 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K616

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kerber is more common than 94.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,535 people named Kerber in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,340 Americans. That is up 35% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,623.

#9,221

rank among US surnames

3,535

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+34.8%

change since 2000 (was #11,105)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,212	Yaeger	3,537	87,290
#9,217	Eide	3,536	87,315
#9,221	Kerber	3,535	87,340
#9,222	Lenoir	3,534	87,364
#9,224	Fulks	3,531	87,439
#9,226	Choudhury	3,530	87,463
#9,227	Baugher	3,529	87,488

Who is named Kerber

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

92% of people named Kerber identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kerber

Koerber

Kerber has the Soundex code K616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K616.

Questions

How common is the surname Kerber?: 3,535 people in the United States had the surname Kerber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,340 Americans. It ranked 9,221st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kerber?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Kerber identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kerber getting more or less common?: More common. 2,623 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,535 in 2010, up 35%.