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    The surname Sitton

    A surname, carried by 3,215 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S350

    Sitton: #10,023 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sitton #10,023, 3,215 people Sitton: #10,023 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sitton #10,023, 3,215 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sitton is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,215 people named Sitton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,033 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,139.

    #10,023
    rank among US surnames
    3,215
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #9,498)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,015Ducote3,21995,913
    #10,019Billman3,21895,943
    #10,021Meltzer3,21696,003
    #10,023Baynes3,21596,033
    #10,026Ullman3,21396,093
    #10,029Trotman3,21296,123
    #10,030Copper3,21196,152

    Who is named Sitton

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

    88% of people named Sitton identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sitton

    Sitton has the Soundex code S350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S350.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sitton?
    3,215 people in the United States had the surname Sitton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,033 Americans. It ranked 10,023rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sitton?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Sitton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sitton getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,139 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,215 in 2010, up 2.4%.