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    The surname Minter

    An occupational surname, carried by 10,301 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M536

    Minter: #3,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Minter #3,470, 10,301 people Minter: #3,470 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Minter #3,470, 10,301 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Minter is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    English occupational surname, from the noun minter. Parallels are found in German and Dutch as Munter.

    Minter is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,301 people named Minter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,972 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,828.

    #3,470
    rank among US surnames
    10,301
    people in 2010
    3.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #3,336)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,462Wicker10,32129,914
    #3,463Liles10,31729,926
    #3,464Fang10,31629,929
    #3,466Maya10,31329,938
    #3,467Ferry10,31229,940
    #3,468Marvin10,31029,946
    #3,469Quinlan10,30229,969

    Who is named Minter

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

    61% of people named Minter identified as white (not Hispanic), 33% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 61%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 33%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Minter

    Minter has the Soundex code M536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M536.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Minter come from?
    English occupational surname, from the noun minter. Parallels are found in German and Dutch as Munter.
    How common is the surname Minter?
    10,301 people in the United States had the surname Minter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,972 Americans. It ranked 3,470th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Minter?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Minter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 33% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Minter?
    Minter is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Minter getting more or less common?
    More common. 9,828 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,301 in 2010, up 4.8%.