How common is the surname Kinsel?

1,060 people in the United States had the surname Kinsel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 291,269 Americans. It ranked 23,837th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kinsel?

In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Kinsel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Kinsel getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,271 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,060 in 2010, down 17%.

The surname Kinsel

A surname, carried by 1,060 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kinsel is more common than 85.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,060 people named Kinsel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 291,269 Americans. That is down 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,271.

#23,837

rank among US surnames

1,060

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-16.6%

change since 2000 (was #19,629)

Who is named Kinsel

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

79% of people named Kinsel identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
American Indian and Alaska Native 14%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
Two or more races 1.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kinsel

Kinsel has the Soundex code K524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K524.

Questions

How common is the surname Kinsel?: 1,060 people in the United States had the surname Kinsel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 291,269 Americans. It ranked 23,837th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kinsel?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Kinsel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Kinsel getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,271 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,060 in 2010, down 17%.