The surname Eckels
A surname, carried by 1,429 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex E242
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,429 people named Eckels in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,346.
#19,053
rank among US surnames
1,429
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+6.2%
change since 2000 (was #18,811)
Who is named Eckels
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Eckels identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Eckels has the Soundex code E242, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E242.
Questions
- How common is the surname Eckels?
- 1,429 people in the United States had the surname Eckels in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 216,057 Americans. It ranked 19,053rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Eckels?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Eckels identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Eckels getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,346 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,429 in 2010, up 6.2%.