How common is the surname Palmateer?

1,340 people in the United States had the surname Palmateer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,407 Americans. It ranked 19,992nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Palmateer?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Palmateer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Palmateer getting more or less common?

More common. 1,320 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,340 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Palmateer

A surname, carried by 1,340 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex P453

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Palmateer is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,340 people named Palmateer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 230,407 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,320.

#19,992

rank among US surnames

1,340

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #19,071)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,986	McClusky	1,341	230,235
#19,992	Couillard	1,340	230,407
#19,997	Jeansonne	1,339	230,579

Who is named Palmateer

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

96% of people named Palmateer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Palmateer

Palmatier

Palmateer has the Soundex code P453, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P453.

Questions

How common is the surname Palmateer?: 1,340 people in the United States had the surname Palmateer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 230,407 Americans. It ranked 19,992nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Palmateer?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Palmateer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Palmateer getting more or less common?: More common. 1,320 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,340 in 2010, up 1.5%.