Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Needle

    A surname, carried by 753 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N340

    Needle: #30,889 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Needle #30,889, 753 people Needle: #30,889 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Needle #30,889, 753 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Needle is more common than 81% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname, from the noun needle. Compare Nadler. * As a Jewish surname, translation of the surname Nadel, itself meaning needle.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 753 people named Needle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 410,021 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 694.

    #30,889
    rank among US surnames
    753
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.5%
    change since 2000 (was #31,530)

    Who is named Needle

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

    94% of people named Needle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Needell

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Needle come from?
    * As an English surname, from the noun needle. Compare Nadler. * As a Jewish surname, translation of the surname Nadel, itself meaning needle.
    How common is the surname Needle?
    753 people in the United States had the surname Needle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 410,021 Americans. It ranked 30,889th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Needle?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Needle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Needle getting more or less common?
    More common. 694 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 753 in 2010, up 8.5%.
    What are other spellings of Needle?
    Needell.