How common is the surname Caplinger?

2,494 people in the United States had the surname Caplinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,795 Americans. It ranked 12,447th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Caplinger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Caplinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Caplinger getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,514 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,494 in 2010, down 0.8%.

The surname Caplinger

A surname, carried by 2,494 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex C145

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Caplinger is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,494 people named Caplinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 123,795 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,514.

#12,447

rank among US surnames

2,494

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.8%

change since 2000 (was #11,489)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,440	Tobler	2,497	123,647
#12,444	Cournoyer	2,496	123,696
#12,447	Coady	2,494	123,795
#12,452	Karlin	2,493	123,845
#12,454	Evert	2,492	123,895

Who is named Caplinger

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

96% of people named Caplinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Caplinger

Caplinger has the Soundex code C145, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C145.

Questions

How common is the surname Caplinger?: 2,494 people in the United States had the surname Caplinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 123,795 Americans. It ranked 12,447th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Caplinger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Caplinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Caplinger getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,514 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,494 in 2010, down 0.8%.