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    The surname Sturdevant

    A surname, carried by 2,600 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S363

    Sturdevant: #12,009 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sturdevant #12,009, 2,600 people Sturdevant: #12,009 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sturdevant #12,009, 2,600 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sturdevant is more common than 92.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,600 people named Sturdevant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 118,748 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,613.

    #12,009
    rank among US surnames
    2,600
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #11,138)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,003Ehlert2,602118,657
    #12,005Jaber2,601118,703
    #12,009Donlon2,600118,748
    #12,012Szeto2,599118,794
    #12,017Satchell2,598118,840

    Who is named Sturdevant

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

    91% of people named Sturdevant identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sturdevant

    Sturdevant has the Soundex code S363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S363.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Sturdevant?
    2,600 people in the United States had the surname Sturdevant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 118,748 Americans. It ranked 12,009th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sturdevant?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sturdevant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sturdevant getting more or less common?
    Less common. 2,613 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,600 in 2010, down 0.5%.