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    The surname Eckman

    A German surname, carried by 4,914 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E255

    Eckman: #6,851 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Eckman #6,851, 4,914 people Eckman: #6,851 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Eckman #6,851, 4,914 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Eckman is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Variant of Eckmann.

    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 4,914 people named Eckman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 62,830 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,739.

    #6,851
    rank among US surnames
    4,914
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #6,596)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,846Bürg4,91962,766
    #6,847Kuehl4,91862,779
    #6,848Gurule4,91562,817
    #6,851Eckman4,91462,830

    Who is named Eckman

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

    95% of people named Eckman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Eckman

    Eckman has the Soundex code E255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E255.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Eckman come from?
    Variant of Eckmann.
    How common is the surname Eckman?
    4,914 people in the United States had the surname Eckman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 62,830 Americans. It ranked 6,851st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Eckman?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Eckman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Eckman getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,914 in 2010, up 3.7%.