How common is the surname Zucker?

3,813 people in the United States had the surname Zucker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,972 Americans. It ranked 8,626th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Zucker?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Zucker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Zucker?

Zucker is /ˈzʌ.kəɹ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Zucker getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,818 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,813 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Zucker

A German surname, carried by 3,813 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈzʌ.kəɹ/ 2 syllables Soundex Z260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Zucker is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Zucker.

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 3,813 people named Zucker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,972 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,818.

#8,626

rank among US surnames

3,813

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #8,011)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,617	Marrone	3,818	80,866
#8,622	Hänsel	3,815	80,929
#8,623	Teller	3,814	80,951
#8,626	Towner	3,813	80,972
#8,629	Zalewski	3,812	80,993
#8,631	Krishnan	3,810	81,036
#8,634	Rankins	3,809	81,057

Who is named Zucker

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

96% of people named Zucker identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Zucker

Zucker has the Soundex code Z260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z260.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Zucker come from?: Borrowed from German Zucker.
How common is the surname Zucker?: 3,813 people in the United States had the surname Zucker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,972 Americans. It ranked 8,626th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Zucker?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Zucker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Zucker?: Zucker is /ˈzʌ.kəɹ/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Zucker getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,818 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,813 in 2010, down 0.1%.