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    The surname Mateer

    A surname, carried by 1,384 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M360

    Mateer: #19,513 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mateer #19,513, 1,384 people Mateer: #19,513 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mateer #19,513, 1,384 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mateer is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,384 people named Mateer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 223,082 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,376.

    #19,513
    rank among US surnames
    1,384
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #18,506)

    Who is named Mateer

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

    93% of people named Mateer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mateer

    Mateer has the Soundex code M360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M360.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mateer?
    1,384 people in the United States had the surname Mateer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 223,082 Americans. It ranked 19,513th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mateer?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Mateer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mateer getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,376 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,384 in 2010, up 0.6%.