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    The surname Eckmann

    A German place surname, carried by 657 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E255

    Eckmann: #34,465 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Eckmann #34,465, 657 people Eckmann: #34,465 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Eckmann #34,465, 657 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Eckmann is more common than 78.8% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Eckmann, topographic surname for someone who lived near a corner, from Eck (“corner”).

    Eckmann is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 657 people named Eckmann in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 469,932 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 635.

    #34,465
    rank among US surnames
    657
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #33,830)

    Who is named Eckmann

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

    94% of people named Eckmann identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    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

    Surnames that sound like Eckmann

    Eckmann 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 Eckmann come from?
    Borrowed from German Eckmann, topographic surname for someone who lived near a corner, from Eck (“corner”).
    How common is the surname Eckmann?
    657 people in the United States had the surname Eckmann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 469,932 Americans. It ranked 34,465th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Eckmann?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Eckmann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Eckmann?
    Eckmann is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Eckmann getting more or less common?
    More common. 635 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 657 in 2010, up 3.5%.
    What are other spellings of Eckmann?
    Eckman.