How common is the surname Knarr?

1,461 people in the United States had the surname Knarr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. It ranked 18,766th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Knarr?

In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Knarr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Knarr getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,468 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,461 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Knarr

A nickname surname, carried by 1,461 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Knarr is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

From the German surname used as a nickname for a hunchback, from knorr (“lump”), which is cognate with knar (“lump, tree knot”).

Knarr is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,461 people named Knarr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,468.

#18,766

rank among US surnames

1,461

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #17,627)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,757	Wilker	1,462	211,180
#18,766	Graddy	1,461	211,325

Who is named Knarr

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

98% of people named Knarr identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 98%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
Two or more races 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Knarr

Knarr has the Soundex code K560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K560.

Questions

Where does the surname Knarr come from?: From the German surname used as a nickname for a hunchback, from knorr (“lump”), which is cognate with knar (“lump, tree knot”).
How common is the surname Knarr?: 1,461 people in the United States had the surname Knarr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 211,325 Americans. It ranked 18,766th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Knarr?: In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Knarr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Knarr?: Knarr is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Knarr getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,468 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,461 in 2010, down 0.5%.