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    The surname Effinger

    A surname, carried by 1,596 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex E152

    Effinger: #17,605 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Effinger #17,605, 1,596 people Effinger: #17,605 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Effinger #17,605, 1,596 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Effinger is more common than 89.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,596 people named Effinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,450 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,578.

    #17,605
    rank among US surnames
    1,596
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #16,694)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,596McGeehan1,597193,328
    #17,605Stahlman1,596193,450
    #17,613Hibler1,595193,571

    Who is named Effinger

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

    77% of people named Effinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Effinger

    Effinger has the Soundex code E152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E152.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Effinger?
    1,596 people in the United States had the surname Effinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,450 Americans. It ranked 17,605th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Effinger?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Effinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Effinger getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,578 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,596 in 2010, up 1.1%.