How common is the surname Straughter?

1,725 people in the United States had the surname Straughter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,983 Americans. It ranked 16,624th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Straughter getting more or less common?

More common. 1,491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,725 in 2010, up 16%.

The surname Straughter

A surname, carried by 1,725 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S362

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Straughter is more common than 89.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,725 people named Straughter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 178,983 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,491.

#16,624

rank among US surnames

1,725

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+15.7%

change since 2000 (was #17,436)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,616	Hoxie	1,726	178,879
#16,624	Nie	1,725	178,983
#16,630	Vanriper	1,724	179,087

Who is named Straughter

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

90% of people named Straughter identified as Black (not Hispanic), 3.4% as two or more races and 3.3% as white (not Hispanic).

Black (not Hispanic) 90%
Two or more races 3.4%
White (not Hispanic) 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Straughter

Straughter has the Soundex code S362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S362.

Questions

How common is the surname Straughter?: 1,725 people in the United States had the surname Straughter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 178,983 Americans. It ranked 16,624th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Straughter?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Straughter identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as two or more races.
Is the surname Straughter getting more or less common?: More common. 1,491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,725 in 2010, up 16%.