How common is the surname Pater?

1,099 people in the United States had the surname Pater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,933 Americans. It ranked 23,205th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pater?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Pater identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Pater getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,253 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,099 in 2010, down 12%.

The surname Pater

A surname, carried by 1,099 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pater is more common than 85.7% of them.

Origin

A surname

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,099 people named Pater in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,933 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,253.

#23,205

rank among US surnames

1,099

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-12.3%

change since 2000 (was #19,852)

Who is named Pater

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

92% of people named Pater identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.7%

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 Pater

Pater has the Soundex code P360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P360.

Questions

How common is the surname Pater?: 1,099 people in the United States had the surname Pater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,933 Americans. It ranked 23,205th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pater?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Pater identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Pater getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,253 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,099 in 2010, down 12%.