Tester

Tester is the 7,818th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,069 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,069
Rank: 7,818th
How common: 1 in 73,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

From Old French testard (“someone with a big head”), a pejorative from teste (“head”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Tester

Jon Tester (born 1956)American politician and farmer

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

Surnames like Tester

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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.