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The surname Fankhauser

A surname, carried by 1,537 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex F522

Fankhauser: #18,116 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fankhauser #18,116, 1,537 people Fankhauser: #18,116 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fankhauser #18,116, 1,537 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fankhauser is more common than 88.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,537 people named Fankhauser in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,875 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,388.

#18,116
rank among US surnames
1,537
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+10.7%
change since 2000 (was #18,389)

Who is named Fankhauser

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

97% of people named Fankhauser identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 97%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Fankhauser

Fankhauser has the Soundex code F522, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F522.

Questions

How common is the surname Fankhauser?
1,537 people in the United States had the surname Fankhauser in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,875 Americans. It ranked 18,116th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fankhauser?
In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Fankhauser identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
Is the surname Fankhauser getting more or less common?
More common. 1,388 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,537 in 2010, up 11%.