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    The surname Kunze

    A surname, carried by 3,351 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K520

    Kunze: #9,686 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kunze #9,686, 3,351 people Kunze: #9,686 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kunze #9,686, 3,351 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kunze is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,351 people named Kunze in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,135 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,320.

    #9,686
    rank among US surnames
    3,351
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.9%
    change since 2000 (was #9,054)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,679Kummer3,35492,053
    #9,683Garrard3,35392,080
    #9,684Blanc3,35292,108
    #9,686Kunze3,35192,135
    #9,687Scholten3,35092,163
    #9,691Paramo3,34892,218
    #9,692Geis3,34792,245

    Who is named Kunze

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

    96% of people named Kunze identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Kunzes

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Kahena Kunze
      Brazilian sailor, born 1991

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kunze

    Kunze has the Soundex code K520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kunze?
    3,351 people in the United States had the surname Kunze in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,135 Americans. It ranked 9,686th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kunze?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kunze identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Kunze?
    Kahena Kunze, Brazilian sailor.
    Where is the surname Kunze most common?
    Wikidata records people named Kunze in Brazil.
    Is the surname Kunze getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,320 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,351 in 2010, up 0.9%.