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    The surname Stivers

    A surname, carried by 4,412 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S316

    Stivers: #7,534 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Stivers #7,534, 4,412 people Stivers: #7,534 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stivers #7,534, 4,412 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stivers is more common than 95.4% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,412 people named Stivers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,979 Americans. That is up 5.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,174.

    #7,534
    rank among US surnames
    4,412
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,354)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,530Caudillo4,41869,884
    #7,531Almendarez4,41569,931
    #7,532Messier4,41369,963
    #7,534Kilby4,41269,979
    #7,536Tung4,41169,994

    Who is named Stivers

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

    92% of people named Stivers identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Stivers

    Stivers 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 Stivers?
    4,412 people in the United States had the surname Stivers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,979 Americans. It ranked 7,534th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stivers?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Stivers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Stivers getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,412 in 2010, up 5.7%.