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    The surname Piehl

    A surname, carried by 1,278 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P400

    Piehl: #20,697 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Piehl #20,697, 1,278 people Piehl: #20,697 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Piehl #20,697, 1,278 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Piehl is more common than 87.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,278 people named Piehl in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,585 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,194.

    #20,697
    rank among US surnames
    1,278
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #20,618)

    Who is named Piehl

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

    95% of people named Piehl identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, 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

    Surnames that sound like Piehl

    Piehl has the Soundex code P400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Piehl?
    1,278 people in the United States had the surname Piehl in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,585 Americans. It ranked 20,697th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Piehl?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Piehl identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Piehl getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,194 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,278 in 2010, up 7.0%.