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    The surname Pinsker

    A German place surname, carried by 358 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P526

    Pinsker: #56,972 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Pinsker #56,972, 358 people Pinsker: #56,972 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Pinsker #56,972, 358 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pinsker is more common than 64.9% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Pinsker, a Jewish Ashkenazi habitational surname for someone from Pinsk, in Belarus.

    Pinsker is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 358 people named Pinsker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 862,418 Americans. That is down 9.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 396.

    #56,972
    rank among US surnames
    358
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -9.6%
    change since 2000 (was #49,767)

    Who is named Pinsker

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

    97% of people named Pinsker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial 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 Pinsker

    Pinsker has the Soundex code P526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P526.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Pinsker come from?
    Borrowed from German Pinsker, a Jewish Ashkenazi habitational surname for someone from Pinsk, in Belarus.
    How common is the surname Pinsker?
    358 people in the United States had the surname Pinsker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 862,418 Americans. It ranked 56,972nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pinsker?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Pinsker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Pinsker?
    Pinsker is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Pinsker getting more or less common?
    Less common. 396 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 358 in 2010, down 9.6%.