The surname Player
An occupational surname, carried by 3,617 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P460
Origin
A surname originating as an occupation for a sportsman.
Player is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,617 people named Player in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,360 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,445.
Who is named Player
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
60% of people named Player identified as white (not Hispanic), 35% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 60%
- Black (not Hispanic) 35%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Player
Player has the Soundex code P460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P460.
Questions
- How common is the surname Player?
- 3,617 people in the United States had the surname Player in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,360 Americans. It ranked 9,033rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Player?
- In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Player identified as white (not Hispanic), and 35% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Player?
- Player is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Player getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,617 in 2010, up 5.0%.