The surname Kensinger
A German surname, carried by 3,184 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex K525
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from Swiss German Kensinger.
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 3,184 people named Kensinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,968 Americans. That is up 141% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,321.
Who is named Kensinger
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Kensinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Kinsinger
Kensinger has the Soundex code K525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K525.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Kensinger come from?
- Borrowed from Swiss German Kensinger.
- How common is the surname Kensinger?
- 3,184 people in the United States had the surname Kensinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,968 Americans. It ranked 10,122nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Kensinger?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kensinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Kensinger getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,321 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,184 in 2010, up 141%.
- What are other spellings of Kensinger?
- Kinsinger.