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    The surname Sober

    A surname, carried by 1,108 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S160

    Sober: #23,065 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sober #23,065, 1,108 people Sober: #23,065 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sober #23,065, 1,108 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sober is more common than 85.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,108 people named Sober in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 278,651 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,055.

    #23,065
    rank among US surnames
    1,108
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5%
    change since 2000 (was #22,723)

    Who is named Sober

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

    92% of people named Sober identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sober

    Sober has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sober?
    1,108 people in the United States had the surname Sober in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 278,651 Americans. It ranked 23,065th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sober?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Sober identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Sober getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,055 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,108 in 2010, up 5.0%.