How common is the surname Kozel?

1,555 people in the United States had the surname Kozel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,550 Americans. It ranked 17,970th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kozel?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kozel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kozel getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,570 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,555 in 2010, down 1.0%.

The surname Kozel

A Czech surname, carried by 1,555 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K240

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kozel is more common than 88.9% of them.

Origin

Czech origin

A surname from Czech

One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,555 people named Kozel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 198,550 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,570.

#17,970

rank among US surnames

1,555

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-1%

change since 2000 (was #16,754)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,970	Dollard	1,555	198,550
#17,975	Archila	1,554	198,678

Who is named Kozel

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

96% of people named Kozel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Kozel

Koziol

Kozel has the Soundex code K240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K240.

Other Czech surnames

All 96 Czech surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kozel come from?: Kozel is Czech in origin.
How common is the surname Kozel?: 1,555 people in the United States had the surname Kozel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,550 Americans. It ranked 17,970th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kozel?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kozel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kozel getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,570 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,555 in 2010, down 1.0%.