How common is the surname Sopher?

1,022 people in the United States had the surname Sopher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,099 Americans. It ranked 24,483rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sopher?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sopher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sopher getting more or less common?

More common. 1,003 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,022 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Sopher

A surname, carried by 1,022 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sopher 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 1,022 people named Sopher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 302,099 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,003.

#24,483

rank among US surnames

1,022

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #23,582)

Who is named Sopher

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

91% of people named Sopher identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
Two or more races 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sopher

Sopher 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 Sopher?: 1,022 people in the United States had the surname Sopher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,099 Americans. It ranked 24,483rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sopher?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sopher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sopher getting more or less common?: More common. 1,003 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,022 in 2010, up 1.9%.