How common is the surname Bockelman?

1,020 people in the United States had the surname Bockelman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,692 Americans. It ranked 24,517th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bockelman?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bockelman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bockelman getting more or less common?

More common. 987 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,020 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Bockelman

A surname, carried by 1,020 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B245

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bockelman is more common than 84.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,020 people named Bockelman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 302,692 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 987.

#24,517

rank among US surnames

1,020

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #23,884)

Who is named Bockelman

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Bockelman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bockelman

Buckland

Bockelman has the Soundex code B245, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B245.

Questions

How common is the surname Bockelman?: 1,020 people in the United States had the surname Bockelman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,692 Americans. It ranked 24,517th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bockelman?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bockelman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bockelman getting more or less common?: More common. 987 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,020 in 2010, up 3.3%.