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    The surname Essner

    A German place surname, carried by 517 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E256

    Essner: #42,030 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Essner #42,030, 517 people Essner: #42,030 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Essner #42,030, 517 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Essner is more common than 74.1% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Essner, a shortened form of Essener, a habitational surname for someone from Essen.

    Essner 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 517 people named Essner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 597,187 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 498.

    #42,030
    rank among US surnames
    517
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #41,262)

    Who is named Essner

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

    97% of people named Essner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Essner

    Essner 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 Essner come from?
    Borrowed from German Essner, a shortened form of Essener, a habitational surname for someone from Essen.
    How common is the surname Essner?
    517 people in the United States had the surname Essner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 597,187 Americans. It ranked 42,030th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Essner?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Essner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Essner?
    Essner is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Essner getting more or less common?
    More common. 498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 517 in 2010, up 3.8%.