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    The surname Suber

    A surname, carried by 4,495 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S160

    Suber: #7,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Suber #7,404, 4,495 people Suber: #7,404 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Suber #7,404, 4,495 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Suber is more common than 95.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,495 people named Suber in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,686 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,144.

    #7,404
    rank among US surnames
    4,495
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.5%
    change since 2000 (was #7,415)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,397Wulf4,49968,625
    #7,399Bosco4,49868,641
    #7,402Valley4,49768,656
    #7,404Edmiston4,49568,686
    #7,406Roof4,49468,702
    #7,408Zou4,49368,717

    Who is named Suber

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

    64% of people named Suber identified as Black (not Hispanic), 31% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 64%
    • White (not Hispanic) 31%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Famous Subers

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Peter Suber
      American philosopher advocate of open access, born 1951

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Suber

    Suber has the Soundex code S160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Suber?
    4,495 people in the United States had the surname Suber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,686 Americans. It ranked 7,404th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Suber?
    In the 2010 Census, 64% of people named Suber identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 31% as white (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Suber?
    Peter Suber, American philosopher advocate of open access.
    Where is the surname Suber most common?
    Wikidata records people named Suber in the United States.
    Is the surname Suber getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,495 in 2010, up 8.5%.