How common is the surname Litke?

1,429 people in the United States had the surname Litke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. It ranked 19,053rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Litke?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Litke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Litke getting more or less common?

More common. 1,425 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,429 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Litke

A surname, carried by 1,429 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Litke is more common than 88.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,429 people named Litke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,425.

#19,053

rank among US surnames

1,429

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #18,045)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,053	Minder	1,429	216,057
#19,062	Cianci	1,428	216,208

Who is named Litke

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

96% of people named Litke identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 0.7%
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

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Surnames that sound like Litke

Litke has the Soundex code L320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L320.

Questions

How common is the surname Litke?: 1,429 people in the United States had the surname Litke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. It ranked 19,053rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Litke?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Litke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Litke getting more or less common?: More common. 1,425 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,429 in 2010, up 0.3%.