The surname Knoll
A German surname, carried by 9,608 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex K540
Origin
German origin
A surname from German
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 9,608 people named Knoll in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,134 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,404.
Who is named Knoll
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Knoll identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Knoll
Knoll has the Soundex code K540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K540.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Knoll come from?
- Knoll is German in origin.
- How common is the surname Knoll?
- 9,608 people in the United States had the surname Knoll in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,134 Americans. It ranked 3,697th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Knoll?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Knoll identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Knoll getting more or less common?
- More common. 9,404 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,608 in 2010, up 2.2%.