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    The surname Kneip

    A German surname, carried by 686 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K510

    Kneip: #33,316 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kneip #33,316, 686 people Kneip: #33,316 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Kneip #33,316, 686 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kneip is more common than 79.5% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Kneip (“cobbler's knife”), from the same source of English knife.

    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 686 people named Kneip in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 450,066 Americans. That is up 7.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 638.

    #33,316
    rank among US surnames
    686
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.5%
    change since 2000 (was #33,690)

    Who is named Kneip

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

    92% of people named Kneip identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.1%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kneip

    Kneip has the Soundex code K510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K510.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kneip come from?
    Borrowed from German Kneip (“cobbler's knife”), from the same source of English knife.
    How common is the surname Kneip?
    686 people in the United States had the surname Kneip in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 450,066 Americans. It ranked 33,316th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kneip?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Kneip identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kneip getting more or less common?
    More common. 638 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 686 in 2010, up 7.5%.