Last Name STERLING

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Irish, Haitian, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	1,333 (2000 US census)	1,260 (1990 US census)

Count	24,314 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

67.54%, or 16422 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
26.4%, or 6419 total occurrences, as black,
0.52%, or 126 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.46%, or 112 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.02%, or 491 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.06%, or 744 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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