# Resetar (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/resetar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Serbo-Croatian |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 473 |
| US rank (2010) | 45,253 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 652,739 people |
| Change since 2000 | -5.6% (501 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Reshetar |

## Etymology

Occupational surname borrowed from Serbo-Croatian rešetar, Slovak rešetár, or Czech řešetář (“sievemaker”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Resetar in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 98% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.1% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Rester, Restrepo, Richter, Rector, Royster, Rossiter, Rister.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.