How common is the surname Sutter?

9,760 people in the United States had the surname Sutter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,634 Americans. It ranked 3,640th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sutter?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sutter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Sutter?

Joe Sutter, American engineer (1921–2016), followed by Kurt Sutter.

Where is the surname Sutter most common?

Wikidata records people named Sutter in the United States, Canada and Austria.

How do you pronounce Sutter?

Sutter is /ˈsʌtɚ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Sutter getting more or less common?

More common. 9,470 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,760 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Sutter

An occupational surname, carried by 9,760 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈsʌtɚ/ 2 syllables Soundex S360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sutter is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

Variant of Suter.

Sutter 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 9,760 people named Sutter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,634 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,470.

#3,640

rank among US surnames

9,760

people in 2010

3.3

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #3,453)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,636	Echevarria	9,777	31,579
#3,637	Parkinson	9,767	31,611
#3,638	Albers	9,766	31,614
#3,640	Sutter	9,760	31,634
#3,641	Lindstrom	9,754	31,653

Who is named Sutter

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

93% of people named Sutter identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sutters

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Joe Sutter
American engineer (1921–2016)
Kurt Sutter
American television director, born 1960
Brandon Sutter
American ice hockey player, born 1989
Bruce Sutter
American baseball player, 1953–2022
Manuel Sutter
Association footballer, born 1991

Notable Sutters come mostly from the United States (3), Canada (1) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sutter

Sutter has the Soundex code S360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S360.

Questions

Where does the surname Sutter come from?: Variant of Suter.
How common is the surname Sutter?: 9,760 people in the United States had the surname Sutter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,634 Americans. It ranked 3,640th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sutter?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sutter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Sutter?: Joe Sutter, American engineer (1921–2016), followed by Kurt Sutter.
Where is the surname Sutter most common?: Wikidata records people named Sutter in the United States, Canada and Austria.
How do you pronounce Sutter?: Sutter is /ˈsʌtɚ/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Sutter?: Sutter is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Sutter getting more or less common?: More common. 9,470 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,760 in 2010, up 3.1%.