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    The surname Staats

    A surname, carried by 4,549 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S332

    Staats: #7,333 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Staats #7,333, 4,549 people Staats: #7,333 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Staats #7,333, 4,549 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Staats is more common than 95.5% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,549 people named Staats in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,871 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,532.

    #7,333
    rank among US surnames
    4,549
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #6,836)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,328Mellott4,55267,826
    #7,331Pisano4,55167,841
    #7,332Yingling4,55067,856
    #7,333Devaney4,54967,871

    Who is named Staats

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

    92% of people named Staats identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • 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 Staats

    Staats has the Soundex code S332, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S332.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Staats?
    4,549 people in the United States had the surname Staats in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,871 Americans. It ranked 7,333rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Staats?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Staats identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Staats getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,532 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,549 in 2010, up 0.4%.