How common is the surname Neer?

2,398 people in the United States had the surname Neer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,751 Americans. It ranked 12,837th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Neer?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Neer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Neer getting more or less common?

More common. 2,119 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,398 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Neer

A surname, carried by 2,398 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex N600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Neer is more common than 92.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,398 people named Neer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 128,751 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,119.

#12,837

rank among US surnames

2,398

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+13.2%

change since 2000 (was #13,213)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,831	Loe	2,401	128,590
#12,833	Vinci	2,400	128,644
#12,835	Digirolamo	2,399	128,698
#12,837	Perreira	2,398	128,751
#12,842	Bridgers	2,397	128,805

Who is named Neer

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

94% of people named Neer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Neer

Neer has the Soundex code N600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N600.

Questions

How common is the surname Neer?: 2,398 people in the United States had the surname Neer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 128,751 Americans. It ranked 12,837th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Neer?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Neer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Neer getting more or less common?: More common. 2,119 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,398 in 2010, up 13%.