How common is the surname Stelter?

1,922 people in the United States had the surname Stelter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,638 Americans. It ranked 15,278th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Stelter?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Stelter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Stelter getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,922 in 2010, down 6.9%.

The surname Stelter

A surname, carried by 1,922 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S343

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stelter is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,922 people named Stelter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,638 Americans. That is down 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,065.

#15,278

rank among US surnames

1,922

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-6.9%

change since 2000 (was #13,503)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,272	Trosper	1,923	160,554
#15,278	Stelter	1,922	160,638
#15,284	Fallis	1,921	160,721

Who is named Stelter

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

96% of people named Stelter identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Stelter

Stelter has the Soundex code S343, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S343.

Questions

How common is the surname Stelter?: 1,922 people in the United States had the surname Stelter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,638 Americans. It ranked 15,278th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Stelter?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Stelter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Stelter getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,922 in 2010, down 6.9%.