The surname Honaker
A German surname, carried by 5,617 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex H526
Origin
German origin
From German Honacker, from Middle High German hōch (“high”) (with dative -n) and acker (“field”).
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 5,617 people named Honaker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,966 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,350.
Who is named Honaker
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Honaker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Honaker has the Soundex code H526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H526.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Honaker come from?
- From German Honacker, from Middle High German hōch (“high”) (with dative -n) and acker (“field”).
- How common is the surname Honaker?
- 5,617 people in the United States had the surname Honaker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,966 Americans. It ranked 6,105th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Honaker?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Honaker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Honaker getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,350 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,617 in 2010, up 5.0%.