How common is the surname Knaack?

1,262 people in the United States had the surname Knaack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 244,648 Americans. It ranked 20,884th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Knaack?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Knaack identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Knaack getting more or less common?

More common. 1,178 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,262 in 2010, up 7.1%.

The surname Knaack

A surname, carried by 1,262 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Knaack is more common than 87.1% of them.

Origin

North/Low German surname, from knaak (“bone”), from the noun Middle Low German knōke, from Old Saxon *knuko, from Proto-West Germanic *knokō. Compare the south German variant Knoch.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,262 people named Knaack in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 244,648 Americans. That is up 7.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,178.

#20,884

rank among US surnames

1,262

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+7.1%

change since 2000 (was #20,831)

Who is named Knaack

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

96% of people named Knaack identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Knaack

Knaack has the Soundex code K520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K520.

Questions

Where does the surname Knaack come from?: North/Low German surname, from knaak (“bone”), from the noun Middle Low German knōke, from Old Saxon *knuko, from Proto-West Germanic *knokō. Compare the south German variant Knoch.
How common is the surname Knaack?: 1,262 people in the United States had the surname Knaack in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 244,648 Americans. It ranked 20,884th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Knaack?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Knaack identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Knaack getting more or less common?: More common. 1,178 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,262 in 2010, up 7.1%.