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    The surname Sitar

    A Slovene occupational surname, carried by 637 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S360

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sitar is more common than 78.2% of them.

    Origin

    Slovene origin

    Borrowed from Slovene Sitar, Czech Sitař and Slovak Sitár, occupational surname from síto (“sieve, net”).

    Sitar is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 637 people named Sitar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 484,687 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 634.

    #35,345
    rank among US surnames
    637
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #33,876)

    Who is named Sitar

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

    94% of people named Sitar identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sitar

    Sitar has the Soundex code S360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S360.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sitar come from?
    Borrowed from Slovene Sitar, Czech Sitař and Slovak Sitár, occupational surname from síto (“sieve, net”).
    How common is the surname Sitar?
    637 people in the United States had the surname Sitar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 484,687 Americans. It ranked 35,345th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sitar?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sitar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Sitar?
    Sitar is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Sitar getting more or less common?
    More common. 634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 637 in 2010, up 0.5%.