The surname Yager
A surname, carried by 7,427 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex Y260
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 7,427 people named Yager in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,571 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 7,417.
#4,766
rank among US surnames
7,427
people in 2010
2.5
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #4,425)
Who is named Yager
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Yager identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Yager has the Soundex code Y260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y260.
Questions
- How common is the surname Yager?
- 7,427 people in the United States had the surname Yager in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,571 Americans. It ranked 4,766th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Yager?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Yager identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Yager getting more or less common?
- More common. 7,417 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,427 in 2010, up 0.1%.