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    The surname Stites

    A German surname, carried by 4,349 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S332

    Stites: #7,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stites #7,633, 4,349 people Stites: #7,633 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stites #7,633, 4,349 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stites is more common than 95.3% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Steitz.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,349 people named Stites in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,992 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,168.

    #7,633
    rank among US surnames
    4,349
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.3%
    change since 2000 (was #7,368)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,625Poteet4,35370,927
    #7,627Sandstrom4,35270,943
    #7,629Brann4,35070,976
    #7,633Stites4,34970,992
    #7,637Zabala4,34871,009
    #7,638Grizzle4,34771,025

    Who is named Stites

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

    92% of people named Stites identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • 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 Stites

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Stites come from?
    Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Steitz.
    How common is the surname Stites?
    4,349 people in the United States had the surname Stites in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,992 Americans. It ranked 7,633rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stites?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Stites identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Stites getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,168 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,349 in 2010, up 4.3%.