How common is the surname Kuhlmann?

2,981 people in the United States had the surname Kuhlmann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,571 Americans. It ranked 10,717th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kuhlmann?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuhlmann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kuhlmann getting more or less common?

More common. 2,877 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,981 in 2010, up 3.6%.

The surname Kuhlmann

A surname, carried by 2,981 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K455

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kuhlmann is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

From the German surname, from the adjective kühl. Compare Kuhl.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,981 people named Kuhlmann in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,571 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,877.

#10,717

rank among US surnames

2,981

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.6%

change since 2000 (was #10,266)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,708	Ricard	2,984	103,467
#10,711	Shute	2,983	103,502
#10,715	Reading	2,982	103,536
#10,717	Nicoletti	2,981	103,571
#10,721	Mager	2,980	103,606
#10,724	Chidester	2,979	103,641
#10,726	Hennigan	2,978	103,675

Who is named Kuhlmann

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

95% of people named Kuhlmann identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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 Kuhlmann

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

Questions

Where does the surname Kuhlmann come from?: From the German surname, from the adjective kühl. Compare Kuhl.
How common is the surname Kuhlmann?: 2,981 people in the United States had the surname Kuhlmann in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,571 Americans. It ranked 10,717th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kuhlmann?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuhlmann identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kuhlmann getting more or less common?: More common. 2,877 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,981 in 2010, up 3.6%.