How common is the surname Hertel?

4,395 people in the United States had the surname Hertel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,249 Americans. It ranked 7,562nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hertel?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hertel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hertel getting more or less common?

More common. 4,057 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,395 in 2010, up 8.3%.

The surname Hertel

A surname, carried by 4,395 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H634

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hertel is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,395 people named Hertel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,249 Americans. That is up 8.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,057.

#7,562

rank among US surnames

4,395

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+8.3%

change since 2000 (was #7,559)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,559	Knepp	4,398	70,201
#7,560	Eiler	4,397	70,217
#7,561	Otten	4,396	70,233
#7,562	Hertel	4,395	70,249

Who is named Hertel

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

95% of people named Hertel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hertel

Hertel has the Soundex code H634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H634.

Questions

How common is the surname Hertel?: 4,395 people in the United States had the surname Hertel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,249 Americans. It ranked 7,562nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hertel?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hertel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hertel getting more or less common?: More common. 4,057 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,395 in 2010, up 8.3%.