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    The surname Seifert

    A German surname, carried by 10,499 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S163

    Seifert: #3,408 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Seifert #3,408, 10,499 people Seifert: #3,408 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Seifert #3,408, 10,499 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Seifert is more common than 97.9% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Seifert.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 10,499 people named Seifert in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 29,407 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,395.

    #3,408
    rank among US surnames
    10,499
    people in 2010
    3.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #3,169)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,400Acker10,51929,351
    #3,401Crist10,51829,354
    #3,403Currier10,51329,368
    #3,404Broderick10,50429,393
    #3,405Waldrop10,50329,396
    #3,406Lemke10,50129,402
    #3,407Snead10,50029,404

    Who is named Seifert

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

    95% of people named Seifert identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Cyphert

    Surnames that sound like Seifert

    Seifert has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Seifert come from?
    Borrowed from German Seifert.
    How common is the surname Seifert?
    10,499 people in the United States had the surname Seifert in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 29,407 Americans. It ranked 3,408th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Seifert?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Seifert identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Seifert getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,395 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,499 in 2010, up 1.0%.
    What are other spellings of Seifert?
    Cyphert.