The surname Sommerfeld
A German surname, carried by 1,749 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S561
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Sommerfeld.
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 1,749 people named Sommerfeld in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 176,527 Americans. That is up 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,699.
Who is named Sommerfeld
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Sommerfeld identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Sommerfeld
Sommerfeld has the Soundex code S561, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S561.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Sommerfeld come from?
- Borrowed from German Sommerfeld.
- How common is the surname Sommerfeld?
- 1,749 people in the United States had the surname Sommerfeld in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 176,527 Americans. It ranked 16,444th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sommerfeld?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sommerfeld identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Sommerfeld getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,699 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,749 in 2010, up 2.9%.