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The surname Longenecker

A surname, carried by 2,677 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L525

Longenecker: #11,709 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Longenecker #11,709, 2,677 people Longenecker: #11,709 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Longenecker #11,709, 2,677 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Longenecker is more common than 92.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,677 people named Longenecker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,333 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,310.

#11,709
rank among US surnames
2,677
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+15.9%
change since 2000 (was #12,340)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,704Maag2,678115,290
#11,709Longenecker2,677115,333
#11,714Dismuke2,676115,376
#11,716Ikeda2,675115,419

Who is named Longenecker

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

96% of people named Longenecker identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Longenecker

Longenecker has the Soundex code L525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L525.

Questions

How common is the surname Longenecker?
2,677 people in the United States had the surname Longenecker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,333 Americans. It ranked 11,709th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Longenecker?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Longenecker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Longenecker getting more or less common?
More common. 2,310 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,677 in 2010, up 16%.