Jeter

Jeter is the 2,809th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,467 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,000.

By the numbers

People: 12,467
Rank: 2,809th
How common: 1 in 24,000
Per 100,000: 4.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jeter described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 48.4%
White, not Hispanic 41.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Jeter

Michael Jeter (1952–2003)American actor
Carmelita Jeter (born 1979)American female 100m sprinter
Derek Jeter (born 1974)American former professional baseball player, author, bussinessman and baseball broadcasters
Nadji Jeter (born 1996)American actor
Eugene Jeter (born 1983)American-born Ukrainian basketball player
K. W. Jeter (born 1950)American author
Hannah Jeter (born 1990)American model

People named Jeter with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jeter

Jett

Also a first name

Jeter has been given to 1,057 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.