How common is the surname Trainer?

3,487 people in the United States had the surname Trainer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,542 Americans. It ranked 9,338th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Trainer getting more or less common?

More common. 3,283 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,487 in 2010, up 6.2%.

The surname Trainer

A surname, carried by 3,487 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex T656

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trainer is more common than 94.2% of them.

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,487 people named Trainer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 88,542 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,283.

#9,338

rank among US surnames

3,487

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+6.2%

change since 2000 (was #9,134)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,332	Kratzer	3,490	88,466
#9,334	Navarrette	3,489	88,491
#9,337	Korman	3,488	88,516
#9,338	Vallejos	3,487	88,542
#9,343	Ostrom	3,485	88,593
#9,344	Lampert	3,484	88,618

Who is named Trainer

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

90% of people named Trainer identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Trainer

Trainer has the Soundex code T656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T656.

Questions

How common is the surname Trainer?: 3,487 people in the United States had the surname Trainer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,542 Americans. It ranked 9,338th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Trainer?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Trainer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Trainer getting more or less common?: More common. 3,283 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,487 in 2010, up 6.2%.