How common is the surname Strobel?

6,097 people in the United States had the surname Strobel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,639 Americans. It ranked 5,685th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Strobel?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Strobel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Strobel?

Lee Strobel, American writer, followed by Al Strobel.

Where is the surname Strobel most common?

Wikidata records people named Strobel in the United States and Germany.

Is the surname Strobel getting more or less common?

More common. 5,978 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,097 in 2010, up 2.0%.

The surname Strobel

A surname, carried by 6,097 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S361

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Strobel is more common than 96.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,097 people named Strobel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 50,639 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,978.

#5,685

rank among US surnames

6,097

people in 2010

2.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2%

change since 2000 (was #5,359)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,676	Nowell	6,112	50,515
#5,677	Massa	6,111	50,523
#5,678	Edens	6,110	50,531
#5,679	Wooley	6,109	50,539
#5,680	Lamm	6,105	50,573
#5,681	Gosselin	6,104	50,581
#5,683	Aguila	6,103	50,589

Who is named Strobel

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

96% of people named Strobel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Strobels

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Lee Strobel
American writer, born 1952
Al Strobel
American actor (1940–2022)
Eric Strobel
American ice hockey player, born 1958
Sebastian Ströbel
Actor, born 1977

Notable Strobels come mostly from the United States (3) and Germany (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Strobel

Strobel has the Soundex code S361, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S361.

Questions

How common is the surname Strobel?: 6,097 people in the United States had the surname Strobel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 50,639 Americans. It ranked 5,685th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Strobel?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Strobel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Strobel?: Lee Strobel, American writer, followed by Al Strobel.
Where is the surname Strobel most common?: Wikidata records people named Strobel in the United States and Germany.
Is the surname Strobel getting more or less common?: More common. 5,978 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,097 in 2010, up 2.0%.