Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Hinkel

    A German surname, carried by 2,449 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H524

    Hinkel: #12,637 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hinkel #12,637, 2,449 people Hinkel: #12,637 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hinkel #12,637, 2,449 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hinkel is more common than 92.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Hinkel.

    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 2,449 people named Hinkel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 126,070 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,446.

    #12,637
    rank among US surnames
    2,449
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #11,732)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,636Mayor2,450126,019
    #12,637Geissler2,449126,070
    #12,642Imes2,448126,122
    #12,644Konopka2,447126,173

    Who is named Hinkel

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

    95% of people named Hinkel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    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 Hinkel

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hinkel come from?
    Borrowed from German Hinkel.
    How common is the surname Hinkel?
    2,449 people in the United States had the surname Hinkel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,070 Americans. It ranked 12,637th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hinkel?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hinkel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Hinkel getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,449 in 2010, up 0.1%.