How common is the surname Piel?

1,367 people in the United States had the surname Piel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,856 Americans. It ranked 19,703rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Piel?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Piel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Piel getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,553 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,367 in 2010, down 12%.

The surname Piel

A surname, carried by 1,367 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P400

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Piel is more common than 87.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,367 people named Piel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 225,856 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,553.

#19,703

rank among US surnames

1,367

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-12%

change since 2000 (was #16,906)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,697	Abbe	1,368	225,691
#19,703	Antillon	1,367	225,856

Who is named Piel

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

94% of people named Piel identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Two or more races 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Piel

Piel 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 Piel?: 1,367 people in the United States had the surname Piel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 225,856 Americans. It ranked 19,703rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Piel?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Piel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Piel getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,553 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,367 in 2010, down 12%.