How common is the surname Runkle?

2,991 people in the United States had the surname Runkle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,225 Americans. It ranked 10,686th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Runkle?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Runkle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Runkle getting more or less common?

More common. 2,988 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,991 in 2010, up 0.1%.

The surname Runkle

A surname, carried by 2,991 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R524

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Runkle is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,991 people named Runkle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,225 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,988.

#10,686

rank among US surnames

2,991

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.1%

change since 2000 (was #9,962)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,679	Ruffner	2,994	103,121
#10,681	Banas	2,993	103,156
#10,683	Hayashi	2,992	103,190
#10,686	Runkle	2,991	103,225
#10,689	Guice	2,990	103,259
#10,692	Spiers	2,989	103,294

Who is named Runkle

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

94% of people named Runkle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Runkle

Runkel

Runkle has the Soundex code R524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R524.

Questions

How common is the surname Runkle?: 2,991 people in the United States had the surname Runkle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,225 Americans. It ranked 10,686th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Runkle?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Runkle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Runkle getting more or less common?: More common. 2,988 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,991 in 2010, up 0.1%.