How common is the surname Pletcher?

3,567 people in the United States had the surname Pletcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,556 Americans. It ranked 9,147th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pletcher?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Pletcher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pletcher getting more or less common?

More common. 3,102 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,567 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname Pletcher

A surname, carried by 3,567 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P432

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pletcher is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,567 people named Pletcher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,556 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,102.

#9,147

rank among US surnames

3,567

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+15%

change since 2000 (was #9,620)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,139	Manalo	3,571	86,459
#9,141	Mishler	3,569	86,508
#9,144	Collum	3,568	86,532
#9,147	Pletcher	3,567	86,556
#9,149	Adamski	3,566	86,580
#9,150	Stouffer	3,565	86,605

Who is named Pletcher

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

96% of people named Pletcher identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pletcher

Pletcher has the Soundex code P432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P432.

Questions

How common is the surname Pletcher?: 3,567 people in the United States had the surname Pletcher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,556 Americans. It ranked 9,147th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pletcher?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Pletcher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pletcher getting more or less common?: More common. 3,102 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,567 in 2010, up 15%.