Yoder

Yoder is the 508th most common surname in the United States, shared by 64,632 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,625.

By the numbers

People: 64,632
Rank: 508th
How common: 1 in 4,625
Per 100,000: 21.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

The family name is from German Joder, the name of a clan in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland; which is in turn from the given name Theodor, after St Theodorus, an early Christian religious leader in Switzerland.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 96.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Yoder

John Howard Yoder (1927–1997)American theologian and academic
Kevin Yoder (born 1976)American politician

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

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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.