How common is the surname Hunsberger?

2,842 people in the United States had the surname Hunsberger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,637 Americans. It ranked 11,142nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hunsberger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hunsberger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hunsberger getting more or less common?

More common. 2,829 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,842 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Hunsberger

A surname, carried by 2,842 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H521

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hunsberger is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,842 people named Hunsberger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 108,637 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,829.

#11,142

rank among US surnames

2,842

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #10,434)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,134	McWhirter	2,846	108,484
#11,135	Pernell	2,845	108,522
#11,138	Henrich	2,843	108,599
#11,142	Getty	2,842	108,637
#11,146	Armand	2,841	108,675

Who is named Hunsberger

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

96% of people named Hunsberger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hunsberger

Hansberry

Hunsberger has the Soundex code H521, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H521.

Questions

How common is the surname Hunsberger?: 2,842 people in the United States had the surname Hunsberger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 108,637 Americans. It ranked 11,142nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hunsberger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hunsberger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hunsberger getting more or less common?: More common. 2,829 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,842 in 2010, up 0.5%.