How common is the surname Warfel?

1,967 people in the United States had the surname Warfel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,963 Americans. It ranked 15,015th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Warfel?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Warfel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Warfel getting more or less common?

More common. 1,841 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,967 in 2010, up 6.8%.

The surname Warfel

A surname, carried by 1,967 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W614

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Warfel is more common than 90.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,967 people named Warfel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,963 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,841.

#15,015

rank among US surnames

1,967

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+6.8%

change since 2000 (was #14,792)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,015	Gerth	1,967	156,963
#15,020	Stallman	1,966	157,042

Who is named Warfel

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

97% of people named Warfel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Warfel

Warfield

Warfel has the Soundex code W614, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W614.

Questions

How common is the surname Warfel?: 1,967 people in the United States had the surname Warfel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,963 Americans. It ranked 15,015th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Warfel?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Warfel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Warfel getting more or less common?: More common. 1,841 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,967 in 2010, up 6.8%.