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    The surname Stiver

    A surname, carried by 1,940 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S316

    Stiver: #15,183 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stiver #15,183, 1,940 people Stiver: #15,183 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stiver #15,183, 1,940 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stiver 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 1,940 people named Stiver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,147 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,834.

    #15,183
    rank among US surnames
    1,940
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.8%
    change since 2000 (was #14,831)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,178Llanas1,941159,065
    #15,183Stiver1,940159,147

    Who is named Stiver

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

    96% of people named Stiver identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    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 Stiver

    Stiver has the Soundex code S316, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S316.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Stiver?
    1,940 people in the United States had the surname Stiver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,147 Americans. It ranked 15,183rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stiver?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Stiver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Stiver getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,834 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,940 in 2010, up 5.8%.