How common is the surname Knorr?

4,333 people in the United States had the surname Knorr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,254 Americans. It ranked 7,665th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Knorr?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Knorr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Knorr?

Nathan Homer Knorr, American Watch Tower Society president (1905–1977), followed by Wilbur Knorr.

Where is the surname Knorr most common?

Wikidata records people named Knorr in the United States.

Is the surname Knorr getting more or less common?

More common. 4,197 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,333 in 2010, up 3.2%.

The surname Knorr

A surname, carried by 4,333 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). Knorr is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

From the Dutch and German surname, from the root of Middle Dutch and Middle Low German cnorre, knorre (“protruberance, knot”). See gnarled.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,333 people named Knorr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,254 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,197.

#7,665

rank among US surnames

4,333

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.2%

change since 2000 (was #7,314)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,660	Hartford	4,336	71,205
#7,662	Desjardins	4,335	71,222
#7,663	Gillman	4,334	71,238
#7,665	Knorr	4,333	71,254
#7,666	Moorhead	4,332	71,271
#7,668	Seibel	4,331	71,287

Who is named Knorr

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

95% of people named Knorr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Knorrs

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Nathan Homer Knorr
American Watch Tower Society president (1905–1977)
Wilbur Knorr
American historian of mathematics (1945–1997)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Knorr

Knorr 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 Knorr come from?: From the Dutch and German surname, from the root of Middle Dutch and Middle Low German cnorre, knorre (“protruberance, knot”). See gnarled.
How common is the surname Knorr?: 4,333 people in the United States had the surname Knorr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,254 Americans. It ranked 7,665th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Knorr?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Knorr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Knorr?: Nathan Homer Knorr, American Watch Tower Society president (1905–1977), followed by Wilbur Knorr.
Where is the surname Knorr most common?: Wikidata records people named Knorr in the United States.
Is the surname Knorr getting more or less common?: More common. 4,197 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,333 in 2010, up 3.2%.