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    The surname Yeater

    A surname, carried by 1,642 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Y360

    Yeater: #17,249 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yeater #17,249, 1,642 people Yeater: #17,249 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yeater #17,249, 1,642 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yeater is more common than 89.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,642 people named Yeater in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 188,030 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,510.

    #17,249
    rank among US surnames
    1,642
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.7%
    change since 2000 (was #17,260)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,249Makela1,642188,030
    #17,258Elders1,641188,145

    Who is named Yeater

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

    95% of people named Yeater identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Yeater

    Yeater has the Soundex code Y360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y360.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Yeater?
    1,642 people in the United States had the surname Yeater in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 188,030 Americans. It ranked 17,249th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yeater?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Yeater identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Yeater getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,510 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,642 in 2010, up 8.7%.