How common is the surname Saetern?

2,142 people in the United States had the surname Saetern in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,139 Americans. It ranked 14,058th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Saetern getting more or less common?

More common. 1,926 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,142 in 2010, up 11%.

The surname Saetern

A surname, carried by 2,142 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S365

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Saetern is more common than 91.3% of them.

Origin

From Iu Mien [Term?].

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,142 people named Saetern in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 144,139 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,926.

#14,058

rank among US surnames

2,142

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+11.2%

change since 2000 (was #14,273)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,050	Tiner	2,143	144,072
#14,058	Stringfield	2,142	144,139
#14,062	Calhoon	2,141	144,206
#14,064	Frison	2,140	144,274
#14,067	Castiglione	2,139	144,341

Who is named Saetern

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

96% of people named Saetern identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.8% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Asian and Pacific Islander 96%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
White (not Hispanic) 0.4%

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

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Saetern

Saetern has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

Questions

Where does the surname Saetern come from?: From Iu Mien [Term?].
How common is the surname Saetern?: 2,142 people in the United States had the surname Saetern in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,139 Americans. It ranked 14,058th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Saetern?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Saetern identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.8% as two or more races.
Is the surname Saetern getting more or less common?: More common. 1,926 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,142 in 2010, up 11%.