How common is the surname Eckenrode?

2,379 people in the United States had the surname Eckenrode in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,780 Americans. It ranked 12,921st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Eckenrode?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Eckenrode identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Eckenrode getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,403 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,379 in 2010, down 1.0%.

The surname Eckenrode

A German surname, carried by 2,379 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex E256

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Eckenrode is more common than 92% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from North German Eckenrode.

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 2,379 people named Eckenrode in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 129,780 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,403.

#12,921

rank among US surnames

2,379

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-1%

change since 2000 (was #11,931)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,914	Bartsch	2,381	129,671
#12,916	Davids	2,380	129,725
#12,921	Godbey	2,379	129,780
#12,927	Riggleman	2,378	129,834
#12,929	Hause	2,377	129,889

Who is named Eckenrode

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

96% of people named Eckenrode identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Eckenrod

Eckenrode has the Soundex code E256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E256.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Eckenrode come from?: Borrowed from North German Eckenrode.
How common is the surname Eckenrode?: 2,379 people in the United States had the surname Eckenrode in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 129,780 Americans. It ranked 12,921st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Eckenrode?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Eckenrode identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Eckenrode getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,403 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,379 in 2010, down 1.0%.
What are other spellings of Eckenrode?: Eckenrod.