How common is the surname Misner?

3,395 people in the United States had the surname Misner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,941 Americans. It ranked 9,573rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Misner?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Misner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Misner getting more or less common?

More common. 3,225 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,395 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Misner

A surname, carried by 3,395 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M256

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Misner is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,395 people named Misner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,941 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,225.

#9,573

rank among US surnames

3,395

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #9,295)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,567	Hendon	3,398	90,861
#9,568	Sill	3,397	90,888
#9,570	Revis	3,396	90,914
#9,573	Delacerda	3,395	90,941
#9,578	Enoch	3,394	90,968
#9,581	Scheid	3,393	90,995

Who is named Misner

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

93% of people named Misner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Misner

Misner has the Soundex code M256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M256.

Questions

How common is the surname Misner?: 3,395 people in the United States had the surname Misner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,941 Americans. It ranked 9,573rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Misner?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Misner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Misner getting more or less common?: More common. 3,225 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,395 in 2010, up 5.3%.