How common is the surname Sitter?

1,019 people in the United States had the surname Sitter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. It ranked 24,531st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sitter?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sitter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sitter getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,019 in 2010, down 6.9%.

The surname Sitter

A surname, carried by 1,019 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sitter is more common than 84.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,019 people named Sitter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. That is down 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,095.

#24,531

rank among US surnames

1,019

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-6.9%

change since 2000 (was #22,053)

Who is named Sitter

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

96% of people named Sitter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sitter

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

Questions

How common is the surname Sitter?: 1,019 people in the United States had the surname Sitter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. It ranked 24,531st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sitter?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sitter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sitter getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,019 in 2010, down 6.9%.