How common is the surname Hensel?

5,429 people in the United States had the surname Hensel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,870 Americans. It ranked 6,291st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hensel?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hensel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hensel getting more or less common?

Less common. 5,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,429 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Hensel

A surname, carried by 5,429 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hensel is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

From German Hänsel or Hensel; see also Hansel, Ansell, Anselm, Henschel.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,429 people named Hensel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,870 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 5,445.

#6,291

rank among US surnames

5,429

people in 2010

1.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #5,816)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,286	Markey	5,435	56,807
#6,288	Mader	5,434	56,817
#6,290	Plata	5,432	56,838
#6,291	Ridgway	5,429	56,870

Who is named Hensel

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

96% of people named Hensel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hensel

Hensel has the Soundex code H524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H524.

Questions

Where does the surname Hensel come from?: From German Hänsel or Hensel; see also Hansel, Ansell, Anselm, Henschel.
How common is the surname Hensel?: 5,429 people in the United States had the surname Hensel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,870 Americans. It ranked 6,291st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hensel?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hensel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hensel getting more or less common?: Less common. 5,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,429 in 2010, down 0.3%.