How common is the surname Harnack?

601 people in the United States had the surname Harnack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 513,720 Americans. It ranked 37,125th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Harnack?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Harnack identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Harnack?

Adolf von Harnack, Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930), followed by Axel Harnack.

Where is the surname Harnack most common?

Wikidata records people named Harnack in the Russian Empire and the United States.

Is the surname Harnack getting more or less common?

More common. 578 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 601 in 2010, up 4.0%.

The surname Harnack

A German surname, carried by 601 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Harnack is more common than 77.1% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Harnack.

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 601 people named Harnack in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 513,720 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 578.

#37,125

rank among US surnames

601

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

+4%

change since 2000 (was #36,531)

Who is named Harnack

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

95% of people named Harnack identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Harnacks

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Adolf von Harnack
Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930)
Axel Harnack
Baltic German mathematician (1851–1888)
Mildred Harnack
American-German literary historian, professor, translator; Resistance fighter and anti-Naz, 1902–1943
Theodosius Harnack
Baltic German theologian (1817–1889)

Notable Harnacks come mostly from the Russian Empire (3) and the United States (1).

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Surnames that sound like Harnack

Harnack has the Soundex code H652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H652.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Harnack come from?: Borrowed from German Harnack.
How common is the surname Harnack?: 601 people in the United States had the surname Harnack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 513,720 Americans. It ranked 37,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Harnack?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Harnack identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Harnack?: Adolf von Harnack, Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian (1851–1930), followed by Axel Harnack.
Where is the surname Harnack most common?: Wikidata records people named Harnack in the Russian Empire and the United States.
Is the surname Harnack getting more or less common?: More common. 578 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 601 in 2010, up 4.0%.