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    The surname Kunkle

    A surname, carried by 4,682 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K524

    Kunkle: #7,142 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kunkle #7,142, 4,682 people Kunkle: #7,142 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kunkle #7,142, 4,682 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kunkle is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,682 people named Kunkle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,943 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,571.

    #7,142
    rank among US surnames
    4,682
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #6,798)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,138Millsap4,68565,901
    #7,140Boggess4,68465,915
    #7,141Revels4,68365,929
    #7,142Kunkle4,68265,943
    #7,143Kulp4,68165,957

    Who is named Kunkle

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

    97% of people named Kunkle identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kunkle

    Kunkle has the Soundex code K524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K524.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kunkle?
    4,682 people in the United States had the surname Kunkle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,943 Americans. It ranked 7,142nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kunkle?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kunkle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Kunkle getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,571 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,682 in 2010, up 2.4%.