The surname Pfeil
A German surname, carried by 2,531 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex P400
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Pfeil.
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 2,531 people named Pfeil in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,986 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,504.
Who is named Pfeil
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Pfeil identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Pfeil
Pfeil has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Pfeil come from?
- Borrowed from German Pfeil.
- How common is the surname Pfeil?
- 2,531 people in the United States had the surname Pfeil in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,986 Americans. It ranked 12,285th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Pfeil?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Pfeil identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Pfeil getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,531 in 2010, up 1.1%.