How common is the surname Pair?

2,143 people in the United States had the surname Pair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,072 Americans. It ranked 14,050th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Pair getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,258 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,143 in 2010, down 5.1%.

The surname Pair

A surname, carried by 2,143 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pair is more common than 91.3% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, probably a variant of Baer, from the noun Bär (“bear”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,143 people named Pair in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 144,072 Americans. That is down 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,258.

#14,050

rank among US surnames

2,143

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-5.1%

change since 2000 (was #12,583)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,042	Viator	2,145	143,937
#14,046	Jolliff	2,144	144,004
#14,050	Tiner	2,143	144,072
#14,058	Stringfield	2,142	144,139

Who is named Pair

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

72% of people named Pair identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 72%
Black (not Hispanic) 20%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 2.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pair

Pair has the Soundex code P600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P600.

Questions

Where does the surname Pair come from?: From the German surname, probably a variant of Baer, from the noun Bär (“bear”).
How common is the surname Pair?: 2,143 people in the United States had the surname Pair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,072 Americans. It ranked 14,050th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pair?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Pair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Pair getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,258 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,143 in 2010, down 5.1%.