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    The surname Sawtelle

    A surname, carried by 1,393 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S340

    Sawtelle: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sawtelle #19,398, 1,393 people Sawtelle: #19,398 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sawtelle #19,398, 1,393 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sawtelle is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,393 people named Sawtelle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,337.

    #19,398
    rank among US surnames
    1,393
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.2%
    change since 2000 (was #18,892)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,390Rifkin1,394221,482
    #19,398Zaborowski1,393221,641

    Who is named Sawtelle

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

    94% of people named Sawtelle identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sawtelle

    Sawtelle has the Soundex code S340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S340.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sawtelle?
    1,393 people in the United States had the surname Sawtelle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,641 Americans. It ranked 19,398th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sawtelle?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sawtelle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sawtelle getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,337 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,393 in 2010, up 4.2%.