How common is the surname Sender?

719 people in the United States had the surname Sender in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. It ranked 32,079th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sender?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sender identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sender getting more or less common?

Less common. 725 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 719 in 2010, down 0.8%.

The surname Sender

A German surname, carried by 719 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sender is more common than 80.2% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Senden, a municipality of North Rhine-Westphalia, or a pet form of Alexander.

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 719 people named Sender in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 725.

#32,079

rank among US surnames

719

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-0.8%

change since 2000 (was #30,412)

Who is named Sender

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

92% of people named Sender identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.3%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sender

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sender come from?: Borrowed from German Senden, a municipality of North Rhine-Westphalia, or a pet form of Alexander.
How common is the surname Sender?: 719 people in the United States had the surname Sender in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 429,410 Americans. It ranked 32,079th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sender?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sender identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sender getting more or less common?: Less common. 725 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 719 in 2010, down 0.8%.