How common is the surname Meissner?

4,097 people in the United States had the surname Meissner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,359 Americans. It ranked 8,093rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Meissner?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Meissner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Meissner?

Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater, born 1989, followed by Alexander Meissner.

Where is the surname Meissner most common?

Wikidata records people named Meissner in the United States, Austria and the Russian Empire.

Is the surname Meissner getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,116 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,097 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Meissner

A German surname, carried by 4,097 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M256

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Meissner is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

German origin

German

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,097 people named Meissner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,359 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,116.

#8,093

rank among US surnames

4,097

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #7,457)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,087	Debord	4,100	75,304
#8,089	Medford	4,099	75,322
#8,091	Holstein	4,098	75,341
#8,093	Meissner	4,097	75,359
#8,097	Burnell	4,095	75,396
#8,101	Burrus	4,094	75,414

Who is named Meissner

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

95% of people named Meissner identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Meissners

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Kimmie Meissner
American figure skater, born 1989
Alexander Meissner
Austrian engineer and physicist (1883–1958)
Boris Meissner
Baltic German lawyer and social scientist (1915–2003)

Notable Meissners come mostly from the United States (1), Austria (1) and the Russian Empire (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Meissner

Meissner has the Soundex code M256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M256.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Meissner come from?: German
How common is the surname Meissner?: 4,097 people in the United States had the surname Meissner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,359 Americans. It ranked 8,093rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Meissner?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Meissner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Meissner?: Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater, born 1989, followed by Alexander Meissner.
Where is the surname Meissner most common?: Wikidata records people named Meissner in the United States, Austria and the Russian Empire.
Is the surname Meissner getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,116 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,097 in 2010, down 0.5%.