How common is the surname Markel?

4,126 people in the United States had the surname Markel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,829 Americans. It ranked 8,023rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Markel?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Markel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Markel getting more or less common?

More common. 4,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,126 in 2010, up 2.4%.

The surname Markel

A surname, carried by 4,126 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M624

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Markel is more common than 95.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,126 people named Markel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,829 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,031.

#8,023

rank among US surnames

4,126

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.4%

change since 2000 (was #7,606)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,016	Kaul	4,128	74,793
#8,019	Pawlak	4,127	74,811
#8,023	Markel	4,126	74,829
#8,027	Polson	4,125	74,847
#8,028	Giffin	4,124	74,866
#8,029	Fulford	4,123	74,884
#8,030	Nystrom	4,122	74,902

Who is named Markel

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

94% of people named Markel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Markel

Markel has the Soundex code M624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M624.

Questions

How common is the surname Markel?: 4,126 people in the United States had the surname Markel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,829 Americans. It ranked 8,023rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Markel?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Markel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Markel getting more or less common?: More common. 4,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,126 in 2010, up 2.4%.