How common is the surname Mielke?

5,482 people in the United States had the surname Mielke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,320 Americans. It ranked 6,235th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mielke?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mielke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Mielke getting more or less common?

More common. 5,422 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,482 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Mielke

A surname, carried by 5,482 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mielke is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,482 people named Mielke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,320 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,422.

#6,235

rank among US surnames

5,482

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #5,848)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,229	Rackley	5,488	56,258
#6,230	Harker	5,485	56,289
#6,232	Rickert	5,483	56,310
#6,235	Deming	5,482	56,320
#6,238	Carothers	5,480	56,340

Who is named Mielke

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

96% of people named Mielke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mielke

Mielke has the Soundex code M420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M420.

Questions

How common is the surname Mielke?: 5,482 people in the United States had the surname Mielke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,320 Americans. It ranked 6,235th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mielke?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mielke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Mielke getting more or less common?: More common. 5,422 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,482 in 2010, up 1.1%.