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The surname Kimpel

A surname, carried by 1,506 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K514

Kimpel: #18,385 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kimpel #18,385, 1,506 people Kimpel: #18,385 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kimpel #18,385, 1,506 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kimpel is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,506 people named Kimpel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. That is up 34% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,121.

#18,385
rank among US surnames
1,506
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+34.3%
change since 2000 (was #21,666)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,378Prohaska1,507204,874
#18,385Roder1,506205,010

Who is named Kimpel

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

90% of people named Kimpel identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 5.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
  • Two or more races 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • 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 Kimpel

Kimpel has the Soundex code K514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K514.

Questions

How common is the surname Kimpel?
1,506 people in the United States had the surname Kimpel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. It ranked 18,385th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kimpel?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Kimpel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Kimpel getting more or less common?
More common. 1,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,506 in 2010, up 34%.