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The surname Nadel

A German surname, carried by 1,513 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex N340

Nadel: #18,317 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Nadel #18,317, 1,513 people Nadel: #18,317 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Nadel #18,317, 1,513 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nadel is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

German and Jewish surname, borrowed from German Nadel (“needle”).

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 1,513 people named Nadel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 204,062 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,447.

#18,317
rank among US surnames
1,513
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+4.6%
change since 2000 (was #17,835)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#18,311McQuinn1,514203,927
#18,317Shakir1,513204,062
#18,326Mirabella1,512204,197

Who is named Nadel

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

91% of people named Nadel identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.9%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
  • Two or more races 0.9%
  • 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 Nadel

Nadel has the Soundex code N340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N340.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Nadel come from?
German and Jewish surname, borrowed from German Nadel (“needle”).
How common is the surname Nadel?
1,513 people in the United States had the surname Nadel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,062 Americans. It ranked 18,317th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Nadel?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Nadel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Nadel getting more or less common?
More common. 1,447 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,513 in 2010, up 4.6%.