Sutter

At the 2020 census, 9,250 Americans bore the surname Sutter — 3,737th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,300.

By the numbers

People: 9,250
Rank: 3,737th
How common: 1 in 32,300
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Swiss German

Variant of Suter.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sutter

Karin Keller-Sutter (born 1963)Swiss politician
Petra De Sutter (born 1963)Flemish politician
John Sutter (1803–1880)pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush
Alain Sutter (born 1968)Swiss footballer
Joe Sutter (1921–2016)American engineer
Kurt Sutter (born 1960)American television director
Tom De Sutter (born 1985)Belgian association football player
Scott Sutter (born 1986)Swiss footballer

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

Surnames like Sutter

Also a first name

Sutter has been given to 598 American babies as a first name since 1995, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

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.