How common is the surname Voelker?

4,735 people in the United States had the surname Voelker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,205 Americans. It ranked 7,069th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Voelker?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Voelker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Voelker getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,758 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,735 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Voelker

A surname, carried by 4,735 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex V426

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Voelker is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,735 people named Voelker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,205 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,758.

#7,069

rank among US surnames

4,735

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #6,569)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,061	Wittman	4,739	65,150
#7,066	Shilling	4,738	65,164
#7,068	Millen	4,737	65,177
#7,069	Voelker	4,735	65,205
#7,071	Westover	4,734	65,219
#7,073	Freitag	4,733	65,233

Who is named Voelker

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

95% of people named Voelker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Voelker

Voelker has the Soundex code V426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V426.

Questions

How common is the surname Voelker?: 4,735 people in the United States had the surname Voelker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,205 Americans. It ranked 7,069th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Voelker?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Voelker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Voelker getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,758 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,735 in 2010, down 0.5%.