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    The surname Yerger

    A German surname, carried by 1,636 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex Y626

    Yerger: #17,300 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yerger #17,300, 1,636 people Yerger: #17,300 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yerger #17,300, 1,636 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yerger is more common than 89.3% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Americanized spelling of German Jerger.

    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 1,636 people named Yerger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 188,720 Americans. That is down 8.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,796.

    #17,300
    rank among US surnames
    1,636
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8.9%
    change since 2000 (was #15,071)

    Who is named Yerger

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

    90% of people named Yerger identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • 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 Yerger

    Yerger has the Soundex code Y626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y626.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Yerger come from?
    Americanized spelling of German Jerger.
    How common is the surname Yerger?
    1,636 people in the United States had the surname Yerger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 188,720 Americans. It ranked 17,300th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yerger?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Yerger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Yerger getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,796 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,636 in 2010, down 8.9%.