How common is the surname Jahnke?

4,035 people in the United States had the surname Jahnke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,517 Americans. It ranked 8,225th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Jahnke?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Jahnke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Jahnke getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,051 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,035 in 2010, down 0.4%.

The surname Jahnke

A German surname, carried by 4,035 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex J520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jahnke is more common than 94.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Jahnke.

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 4,035 people named Jahnke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 76,517 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,051.

#8,225

rank among US surnames

4,035

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,570)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,217	Sheth	4,038	76,460
#8,220	Surber	4,037	76,479
#8,222	Fontanez	4,036	76,498
#8,225	Jahnke	4,035	76,517
#8,226	Bonin	4,034	76,536
#8,227	Canning	4,033	76,555

Who is named Jahnke

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

97% of people named Jahnke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Yahnke

Surnames that sound like Jahnke

Jahnke has the Soundex code J520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J520.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Jahnke come from?: Borrowed from German Jahnke.
How common is the surname Jahnke?: 4,035 people in the United States had the surname Jahnke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 76,517 Americans. It ranked 8,225th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jahnke?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Jahnke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Jahnke getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,051 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,035 in 2010, down 0.4%.
What are other spellings of Jahnke?: Yahnke.