How common is the surname Zehr?

3,015 people in the United States had the surname Zehr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Zehr?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Zehr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Zehr getting more or less common?

More common. 2,594 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, up 16%.

The surname Zehr

A surname, carried by 3,015 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex Z600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Zehr is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,015 people named Zehr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,594.

#10,620

rank among US surnames

3,015

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+16.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,207)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,613	Kelch	3,018	102,301
#10,614	Boateng	3,017	102,335
#10,615	Vila	3,016	102,369
#10,620	Cardillo	3,015	102,403
#10,626	Leclerc	3,014	102,437
#10,628	Stefan	3,013	102,471

Who is named Zehr

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

96% of people named Zehr identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Zehr

Zerr

Zehr has the Soundex code Z600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z600.

Questions

How common is the surname Zehr?: 3,015 people in the United States had the surname Zehr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Zehr?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Zehr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Zehr getting more or less common?: More common. 2,594 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, up 16%.