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    The surname Knopp

    A German surname, carried by 4,103 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K510

    Knopp: #8,080 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Knopp #8,080, 4,103 people Knopp: #8,080 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Knopp #8,080, 4,103 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Knopp is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Knopp.

    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 4,103 people named Knopp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,249 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,068.

    #8,080
    rank among US surnames
    4,103
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #7,541)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,072McCarley4,10675,194
    #8,073Kinley4,10575,212
    #8,076Lovely4,10475,230
    #8,080Carraway4,10375,249
    #8,082Villavicencio4,10275,267
    #8,084Trail4,10175,285
    #8,087Debord4,10075,304

    Who is named Knopp

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

    97% of people named Knopp identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    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 Knopp

    Knopp 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 Knopp come from?
    Borrowed from German Knopp.
    How common is the surname Knopp?
    4,103 people in the United States had the surname Knopp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,249 Americans. It ranked 8,080th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Knopp?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Knopp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Knopp getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,103 in 2010, up 0.9%.