How common is the surname Kolesar?

1,835 people in the United States had the surname Kolesar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. It ranked 15,857th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kolesar?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kolesar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kolesar getting more or less common?

More common. 1,820 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,835 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Kolesar

A Slovak surname, carried by 1,835 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex K426

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kolesar is more common than 90.2% of them.

Origin

Slovak origin

From Slovak Kolesár, from Slovak kolesár (“wheelwright”); or Serbo-Croatian Kolesar, from Serbo-Croatian kolesar (“wheelwright”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,835 people named Kolesar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,820.

#15,857

rank among US surnames

1,835

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #14,920)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,854	Perezlopez	1,836	168,162
#15,857	Dority	1,835	168,254
#15,864	Leonardi	1,834	168,345

Who is named Kolesar

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

96% of people named Kolesar identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Kolessar

Kolesar has the Soundex code K426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K426.

Questions

Where does the surname Kolesar come from?: From Slovak Kolesár, from Slovak kolesár (“wheelwright”); or Serbo-Croatian Kolesar, from Serbo-Croatian kolesar (“wheelwright”).
How common is the surname Kolesar?: 1,835 people in the United States had the surname Kolesar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 168,254 Americans. It ranked 15,857th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kolesar?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kolesar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kolesar getting more or less common?: More common. 1,820 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,835 in 2010, up 0.8%.
What are other spellings of Kolesar?: Kolessar.