How common is the surname Quackenbush?

4,164 people in the United States had the surname Quackenbush in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,146 Americans. It ranked 7,947th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Quackenbush getting more or less common?

About as common. 4,163 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,164 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Quackenbush

A Dutch place surname, carried by 4,164 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex Q251

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Quackenbush is more common than 95.1% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Americanized spelling of Dutch Quackenbosch, a habitational surname from quaak (“swamp”) + bosch (“woodland”).

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

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,164 people named Quackenbush in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,146 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,163.

#7,947

rank among US surnames

4,164

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #7,381)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,940	Waddle	4,167	74,093
#7,942	Wirtz	4,166	74,111
#7,944	Mele	4,165	74,129
#7,947	Czarnecki	4,164	74,146
#7,950	Alleyne	4,163	74,164
#7,953	Papp	4,162	74,182

Who is named Quackenbush

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

95% of people named Quackenbush identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Quakenbush
Quackenbos

Quackenbush has the Soundex code Q251, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Q251.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Quackenbush come from?: Americanized spelling of Dutch Quackenbosch, a habitational surname from quaak (“swamp”) + bosch (“woodland”).
How common is the surname Quackenbush?: 4,164 people in the United States had the surname Quackenbush in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,146 Americans. It ranked 7,947th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Quackenbush?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Quackenbush identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Quackenbush?: Quackenbush is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Quackenbush getting more or less common?: About as common. 4,163 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,164 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.
What are other spellings of Quackenbush?: Quakenbush and Quackenbos.