How common is the surname Veit?

2,481 people in the United States had the surname Veit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,444 Americans. It ranked 12,496th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Veit?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Veit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Veit getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,481 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Veit

A German surname, carried by 2,481 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex V300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Veit is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Veit.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,481 people named Veit in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,444 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,487.

#12,496

rank among US surnames

2,481

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,583)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,488	Tuma	2,484	124,294
#12,491	Laplant	2,482	124,394
#12,496	Justiniano	2,481	124,444
#12,500	Howey	2,480	124,494
#12,504	Gum	2,479	124,544

Who is named Veit

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

92% of people named Veit identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Veit

Veit has the Soundex code V300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V300.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Veit come from?: Borrowed from German Veit.
How common is the surname Veit?: 2,481 people in the United States had the surname Veit in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,444 Americans. It ranked 12,496th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Veit?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Veit identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Veit getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,481 in 2010, down 0.2%.