How common is the surname Hoback?

1,409 people in the United States had the surname Hoback in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. It ranked 19,242nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hoback?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hoback identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hoback getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,409 in 2010, down 4.7%.

The surname Hoback

A surname, carried by 1,409 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hoback is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,409 people named Hoback in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. That is down 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,478.

#19,242

rank among US surnames

1,409

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-4.7%

change since 2000 (was #17,556)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,234	Selle	1,410	218,968
#19,242	Stuhr	1,409	219,124

Who is named Hoback

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

96% of people named Hoback identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

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

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 Hoback

Habeck

Hoback has the Soundex code H120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H120.

Questions

How common is the surname Hoback?: 1,409 people in the United States had the surname Hoback in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 219,124 Americans. It ranked 19,242nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hoback?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hoback identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hoback getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,478 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,409 in 2010, down 4.7%.