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    The surname Soper

    An occupational surname, carried by 6,421 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S160

    Soper: #5,420 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Soper #5,420, 6,421 people Soper: #5,420 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Soper #5,420, 6,421 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Soper is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname originating as an occupation for a soaper.

    Soper 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 6,421 people named Soper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 48,084 Americans. That is down 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,479.

    #5,420
    rank among US surnames
    6,421
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #4,976)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,411Yepez6,43347,994
    #5,412Chevalier6,43148,009
    #5,413Ritz6,43048,016
    #5,414Fell6,42948,024
    #5,415Umana6,42648,046
    #5,417Theis6,42548,054
    #5,418Theriot6,42448,061

    Who is named Soper

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

    95% of people named Soper identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    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 Soper

    Soper 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 Soper?
    6,421 people in the United States had the surname Soper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 48,084 Americans. It ranked 5,420th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Soper?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Soper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Soper?
    Soper is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Soper getting more or less common?
    Less common. 6,479 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,421 in 2010, down 0.9%.