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    The surname Stair

    A place surname, carried by 2,522 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S360

    Stair: #12,328 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stair #12,328, 2,522 people Stair: #12,328 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stair #12,328, 2,522 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stair is more common than 92.4% of them.

    Origin

    From stair, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a ladder or steps.

    Stair is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,522 people named Stair in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,421 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,413.

    #12,328
    rank among US surnames
    2,522
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #11,879)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,320Galasso2,524122,324
    #12,323Dendy2,523122,372
    #12,328Reason2,522122,421
    #12,333Crochet2,521122,469

    Who is named Stair

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

    92% of people named Stair identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 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 Stair

    Stair has the Soundex code S360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S360.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stair come from?
    From stair, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a ladder or steps.
    How common is the surname Stair?
    2,522 people in the United States had the surname Stair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,421 Americans. It ranked 12,328th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stair?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Stair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Stair?
    Stair is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Stair getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,413 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,522 in 2010, up 4.5%.