How common is the surname Senn?

5,448 people in the United States had the surname Senn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,671 Americans. It ranked 6,273rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Senn?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Senn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Senn getting more or less common?

More common. 5,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,448 in 2010, up 3.0%.

The surname Senn

A German occupational surname, carried by 5,448 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Senn is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

German origin

South German surname for a dairy farmer, from the common noun German Senn(e) (“herdsman in the Alps”) (15th century), from Old High German senno (“shepherd”) (11th century), from Proto-West Germanic *sannjō (“herdsman, dairyman”), from Vulgar Latin saniō (“herdsman, dairyman”) (compare Romansh Sursilvan sagn, Romansh Ladin signun (“herdsman”)), presumably from Celtic (compare Old Irish sine (“nipple, teat”), from Proto-Celtic *sɸenyos (“teat, nipple”)). A relationship with German Sahne (“cream”) (ultimately from Latin sagīna (“nourishment”)) is unlikely.

Senn is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 5,448 people named Senn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,671 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,290.

#6,273

rank among US surnames

5,448

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+3%

change since 2000 (was #5,994)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,268	Cawley	5,451	56,640
#6,269	McCulley	5,450	56,651
#6,271	Lowder	5,449	56,661
#6,273	Senn	5,448	56,671
#6,275	Awad	5,446	56,692

Who is named Senn

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

93% of people named Senn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Senn

Senn has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

Other German surnames

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Questions

Where does the surname Senn come from?: South German surname for a dairy farmer, from the common noun German Senn(e) (“herdsman in the Alps”) (15th century), from Old High German senno (“shepherd”) (11th century), from Proto-West Germanic *sannjō (“herdsman, dairyman”), from Vulgar Latin saniō (“herdsman, dairyman”) (compare Romansh…
How common is the surname Senn?: 5,448 people in the United States had the surname Senn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,671 Americans. It ranked 6,273rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Senn?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Senn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Senn?: Senn is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Senn getting more or less common?: More common. 5,290 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,448 in 2010, up 3.0%.