How common is the surname Saltzman?

4,267 people in the United States had the surname Saltzman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,357 Americans. It ranked 7,778th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Saltzman?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Saltzman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Saltzman?

B. Chance Saltzman, 2nd U.S. Space Force chief of space operations.

Is the surname Saltzman getting more or less common?

More common. 4,239 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,267 in 2010, up 0.7%.

The surname Saltzman

A surname, carried by 4,267 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S432

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Saltzman is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Salzmann.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,267 people named Saltzman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,357 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,239.

#7,778

rank among US surnames

4,267

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.7%

change since 2000 (was #7,258)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,772	Grewal	4,270	72,306
#7,774	McCollough	4,269	72,323
#7,776	Husted	4,268	72,340
#7,778	Saltzman	4,267	72,357
#7,781	Strachan	4,266	72,374
#7,782	Arceo	4,265	72,391

Who is named Saltzman

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

96% of people named Saltzman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Saltzmans

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

B. Chance Saltzman
2nd U.S. Space Force chief of space operations, born 1969

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Saltzman

Saltzman has the Soundex code S432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S432.

Questions

Where does the surname Saltzman come from?: German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Salzmann.
How common is the surname Saltzman?: 4,267 people in the United States had the surname Saltzman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,357 Americans. It ranked 7,778th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Saltzman?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Saltzman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Saltzman?: B. Chance Saltzman, 2nd U.S. Space Force chief of space operations.
Is the surname Saltzman getting more or less common?: More common. 4,239 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,267 in 2010, up 0.7%.