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The surname Ensminger

A German surname, carried by 2,525 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex E525

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ensminger is more common than 92.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Ensminger.

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 2,525 people named Ensminger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,275 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,508.

#12,312
rank among US surnames
2,525
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+0.7%
change since 2000 (was #11,512)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#12,303Wolk2,527122,179
#12,307Reider2,526122,227
#12,312Bradburn2,525122,275
#12,320Galasso2,524122,324

Who is named Ensminger

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

93% of people named Ensminger identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

  • Entsminger
  • Entzminger

Ensminger has the Soundex code E525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E525.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ensminger come from?
Borrowed from German Ensminger.
How common is the surname Ensminger?
2,525 people in the United States had the surname Ensminger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,275 Americans. It ranked 12,312th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ensminger?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Ensminger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ensminger getting more or less common?
More common. 2,508 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,525 in 2010, up 0.7%.
What are other spellings of Ensminger?
Entsminger and Entzminger.