How common is the surname Hufnagel?

1,641 people in the United States had the surname Hufnagel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 188,145 Americans. It ranked 17,258th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hufnagel?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hufnagel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hufnagel getting more or less common?

More common. 1,596 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,641 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Hufnagel

A German surname, carried by 1,641 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H152

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hufnagel is more common than 89.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Hufnagel.

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 1,641 people named Hufnagel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 188,145 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,596.

#17,258

rank among US surnames

1,641

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #16,562)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,249	Makela	1,642	188,030
#17,258	Elders	1,641	188,145

Who is named Hufnagel

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

93% of people named Hufnagel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 2.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, 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

Hufnagle

Surnames that sound like Hufnagel

Huffines

Hufnagel has the Soundex code H152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H152.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hufnagel come from?: Borrowed from German Hufnagel.
How common is the surname Hufnagel?: 1,641 people in the United States had the surname Hufnagel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 188,145 Americans. It ranked 17,258th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hufnagel?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hufnagel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hufnagel getting more or less common?: More common. 1,596 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,641 in 2010, up 2.8%.
What are other spellings of Hufnagel?: Hufnagle.