How common is the surname Koelsch?

1,019 people in the United States had the surname Koelsch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. It ranked 24,531st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Koelsch?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Koelsch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Koelsch getting more or less common?

More common. 1,015 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,019 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Koelsch

A German surname, carried by 1,019 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Koelsch is more common than 84.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Kölsch.

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 1,019 people named Koelsch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,015.

#24,531

rank among US surnames

1,019

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #23,372)

Who is named Koelsch

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

94% of people named Koelsch identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

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

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Surnames that sound like Koelsch

Koelsch has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Koelsch come from?: Borrowed from German Kölsch.
How common is the surname Koelsch?: 1,019 people in the United States had the surname Koelsch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 302,989 Americans. It ranked 24,531st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Koelsch?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Koelsch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Koelsch getting more or less common?: More common. 1,015 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,019 in 2010, up 0.4%.