How common is the surname Hirschfeld?

1,335 people in the United States had the surname Hirschfeld in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 231,270 Americans. It ranked 20,037th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hirschfeld?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Hirschfeld identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Hirschfeld?

Al Hirschfeld, American artist and caricaturist (1903-2003), followed by Robert Hirschfeld.

Where is the surname Hirschfeld most common?

Wikidata records people named Hirschfeld in the United States and Austria.

Is the surname Hirschfeld getting more or less common?

More common. 1,321 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,335 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Hirschfeld

A surname, carried by 1,335 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H621

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hirschfeld is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,335 people named Hirschfeld in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 231,270 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,321.

#20,037

rank among US surnames

1,335

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #19,059)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,029	Mangini	1,336	231,097
#20,037	Hirschfeld	1,335	231,270

Who is named Hirschfeld

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

92% of people named Hirschfeld identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Two or more races 0.8%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hirschfelds

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Al Hirschfeld
American artist and caricaturist (1903-2003)
Robert Hirschfeld
American actor (1942-2009)
Viktor Léon
Austrian librettist (1858–1940)

Notable Hirschfelds come mostly from the United States (2) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hirschfield

Surnames that sound like Hirschfeld

Horsfield

Hirschfeld has the Soundex code H621, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H621.

Questions

How common is the surname Hirschfeld?: 1,335 people in the United States had the surname Hirschfeld in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 231,270 Americans. It ranked 20,037th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hirschfeld?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Hirschfeld identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Hirschfeld?: Al Hirschfeld, American artist and caricaturist (1903-2003), followed by Robert Hirschfeld.
Where is the surname Hirschfeld most common?: Wikidata records people named Hirschfeld in the United States and Austria.
Is the surname Hirschfeld getting more or less common?: More common. 1,321 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,335 in 2010, up 1.1%.
What are other spellings of Hirschfeld?: Hirschfield.