The surname Oppenheim
A German surname, carried by 1,795 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex O155
Origin
German origin
From German Oppenheim.
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 1,795 people named Oppenheim in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,003 Americans. That is down 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,860.
Who is named Oppenheim
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Oppenheim identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Oppenheim
Oppenheim has the Soundex code O155, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O155.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Oppenheim come from?
- From German Oppenheim.
- How common is the surname Oppenheim?
- 1,795 people in the United States had the surname Oppenheim in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,003 Americans. It ranked 16,125th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Oppenheim?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Oppenheim identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Oppenheim getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,860 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,795 in 2010, down 3.5%.