How common is the surname Housel?

1,566 people in the United States had the surname Housel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. It ranked 17,864th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Housel?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Housel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Housel getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,566 in 2010, down 5.0%.

The surname Housel

A German surname, carried by 1,566 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H240

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Housel is more common than 89% of them.

Origin

German origin

Americanized form of German Hauschild.

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 1,566 people named Housel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. That is down 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,649.

#17,864

rank among US surnames

1,566

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-5%

change since 2000 (was #16,128)

Who is named Housel

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

95% of people named Housel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
Two or more races 0.6%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Houseal

Surnames that sound like Housel

Housel has the Soundex code H240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H240.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Housel come from?: Americanized form of German Hauschild.
How common is the surname Housel?: 1,566 people in the United States had the surname Housel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. It ranked 17,864th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Housel?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Housel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Housel getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,566 in 2010, down 5.0%.
What are other spellings of Housel?: Houseal.