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    The surname Kohlman

    A German surname, carried by 1,179 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K455

    Kohlman: #22,000 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kohlman #22,000, 1,179 people Kohlman: #22,000 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kohlman #22,000, 1,179 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kohlman is more common than 86.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Variant of Kohlmann.

    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 1,179 people named Kohlman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 261,871 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,178.

    #22,000
    rank among US surnames
    1,179
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #20,831)

    Who is named Kohlman

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

    93% of people named Kohlman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kohlman

    Kohlman has the Soundex code K455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K455.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kohlman come from?
    Variant of Kohlmann.
    How common is the surname Kohlman?
    1,179 people in the United States had the surname Kohlman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 261,871 Americans. It ranked 22,000th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kohlman?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kohlman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Kohlman getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,178 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,179 in 2010, up 0.1%.