How common is the surname Nett?

1,454 people in the United States had the surname Nett in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,342 Americans. It ranked 18,831st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Nett?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Nett identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Nett getting more or less common?

More common. 1,365 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,454 in 2010, up 6.5%.

The surname Nett

A German surname, carried by 1,454 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex N300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nett is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As a German surname, from Middle High German nett, from Old French net (“clean”), ultimately from Latin *nittus. * As an Irish surname, variant of McNett.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,454 people named Nett in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 212,342 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,365.

#18,831

rank among US surnames

1,454

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+6.5%

change since 2000 (was #18,619)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,831	Cozzi	1,454	212,342
#18,835	Raval	1,453	212,488

Who is named Nett

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

95% of people named Nett identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Nett

Nett has the Soundex code N300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N300.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Nett come from?: * As a German surname, from Middle High German nett, from Old French net (“clean”), ultimately from Latin *nittus. * As an Irish surname, variant of McNett.
How common is the surname Nett?: 1,454 people in the United States had the surname Nett in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 212,342 Americans. It ranked 18,831st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Nett?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Nett identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Nett getting more or less common?: More common. 1,365 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,454 in 2010, up 6.5%.