How common is the surname Dinkel?

2,342 people in the United States had the surname Dinkel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,830 Americans. It ranked 13,096th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Dinkel?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dinkel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Dinkel getting more or less common?

More common. 2,251 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,342 in 2010, up 4.0%.

The surname Dinkel

A German surname, carried by 2,342 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dinkel is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Dinkel.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,342 people named Dinkel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,830 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,251.

#13,096

rank among US surnames

2,342

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+4%

change since 2000 (was #12,616)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,087	Carpentier	2,345	131,661
#13,088	Pascarella	2,344	131,717
#13,091	DiMatteo	2,343	131,774
#13,096	Highland	2,342	131,830
#13,099	Lipford	2,341	131,886
#13,101	Vansant	2,340	131,943

Who is named Dinkel

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

95% of people named Dinkel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Dinkel

Dinkel has the Soundex code D524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D524.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Dinkel come from?: Borrowed from German Dinkel.
How common is the surname Dinkel?: 2,342 people in the United States had the surname Dinkel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,830 Americans. It ranked 13,096th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Dinkel?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Dinkel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Dinkel getting more or less common?: More common. 2,251 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,342 in 2010, up 4.0%.