Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Stringer

    An occupational surname, carried by 17,300 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S365

    Stringer: #2,091 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Stringer #2,091, 17,300 people Stringer: #2,091 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Stringer #2,091, 17,300 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Stringer is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname originating as an occupation for a stringer.

    Stringer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,300 people named Stringer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,847 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,634.

    #2,091
    rank among US surnames
    17,300
    people in 2010
    5.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #1,999)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,082Bain17,37117,774
    #2,083Madsen17,36417,781
    #2,084Cavazos17,36117,784
    #2,085Burrows17,35517,790
    #2,086Busch17,35417,791
    #2,087Burroughs17,33617,810
    #2,088Schuster17,32517,821

    Who is named Stringer

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

    76% of people named Stringer identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Stringer

    Stringer has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Stringer?
    17,300 people in the United States had the surname Stringer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,847 Americans. It ranked 2,091st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Stringer?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Stringer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Stringer?
    Stringer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Stringer getting more or less common?
    More common. 16,634 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,300 in 2010, up 4.0%.