The surname Apel
A surname, carried by 1,919 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A140
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,919 people named Apel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,854.
#15,296
rank among US surnames
1,919
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+3.5%
change since 2000 (was #14,701)
Who is named Apel
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Apel identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
- Two or more races 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Apel has the Soundex code A140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A140.
Questions
- How common is the surname Apel?
- 1,919 people in the United States had the surname Apel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,889 Americans. It ranked 15,296th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Apel?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Apel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Apel getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,854 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,919 in 2010, up 3.5%.