Salter

Salter is the 2,544th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,839 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,600.

By the numbers

People: 13,839
Rank: 2,544th
How common: 1 in 21,600
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

As an English surname, from the noun salter. Sometimes confused with Souter; also compare Saltman.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.5%
Black, not Hispanic 24.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Salter

Susanna M. Salter (1860–1961)American politician and activist
James Salter (1925–2015)American novelist and short-story writer
Jake Clarke-Salter (born 1997)English association football player

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

Surnames like Salter

Try it on yourself

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.