The surname Runk
A German surname, carried by 1,434 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex R520
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Runk.
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 1,434 people named Runk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 215,304 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,322.
Who is named Runk
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Runk identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Runk has the Soundex code R520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R520.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Runk come from?
- Borrowed from German Runk.
- How common is the surname Runk?
- 1,434 people in the United States had the surname Runk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 215,304 Americans. It ranked 19,004th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Runk?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Runk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Runk getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,434 in 2010, up 8.5%.