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    The surname Salters

    A surname, carried by 2,597 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S436

    Salters: #12,022 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Salters #12,022, 2,597 people Salters: #12,022 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Salters #12,022, 2,597 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Salters is more common than 92.6% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Salthouse.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,597 people named Salters in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 118,885 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,308.

    #12,022
    rank among US surnames
    2,597
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.5%
    change since 2000 (was #12,347)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,017Satchell2,598118,840
    #12,022Detrick2,597118,885
    #12,025Pless2,596118,931
    #12,031Lamoreaux2,595118,977

    Who is named Salters

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

    63% of people named Salters identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 63%
    • White (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Salters

    Salters has the Soundex code S436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S436.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Salters come from?
    Variant of Salthouse.
    How common is the surname Salters?
    2,597 people in the United States had the surname Salters in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,885 Americans. It ranked 12,022nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Salters?
    In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Salters identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Salters getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,308 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,597 in 2010, up 13%.