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The surname Sanderlin

A surname, carried by 1,978 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S536

Sanderlin: #14,950 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sanderlin #14,950, 1,978 people Sanderlin: #14,950 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sanderlin #14,950, 1,978 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sanderlin is more common than 90.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,978 people named Sanderlin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,090 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,883.

#14,950
rank among US surnames
1,978
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+5%
change since 2000 (was #14,514)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,943Setser1,980155,932
#14,946Deloera1,979156,011
#14,950Ingold1,978156,090
#14,957Toone1,977156,169

Who is named Sanderlin

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

73% of people named Sanderlin identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 73%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 20%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Two or more races 2.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sanderlin

Sanderlin has the Soundex code S536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S536.

Questions

How common is the surname Sanderlin?
1,978 people in the United States had the surname Sanderlin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,090 Americans. It ranked 14,950th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sanderlin?
In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Sanderlin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Sanderlin getting more or less common?
More common. 1,883 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,978 in 2010, up 5.0%.