How common is the surname Meinke?

1,445 people in the United States had the surname Meinke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,665 Americans. It ranked 18,899th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Meinke?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Meinke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Meinke getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,468 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,445 in 2010, down 1.6%.

The surname Meinke

A surname, carried by 1,445 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Meinke is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,445 people named Meinke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,665 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,468.

#18,899

rank among US surnames

1,445

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-1.6%

change since 2000 (was #17,627)

Who is named Meinke

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

96% of people named Meinke 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 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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 Meinke

Meinke has the Soundex code M520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M520.

Questions

How common is the surname Meinke?: 1,445 people in the United States had the surname Meinke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,665 Americans. It ranked 18,899th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Meinke?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Meinke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Meinke getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,468 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,445 in 2010, down 1.6%.