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The surname Warnke

A surname, carried by 2,767 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W652

Warnke: #11,395 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Warnke #11,395, 2,767 people Warnke: #11,395 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Warnke #11,395, 2,767 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Warnke is more common than 93% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,767 people named Warnke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 111,581 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,682.

#11,395
rank among US surnames
2,767
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+3.2%
change since 2000 (was #10,893)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,388Max2,769111,501
#11,393Ickes2,768111,541
#11,395Schneck2,767111,581
#11,402Terhune2,766111,622
#11,404Cremeans2,765111,662

Who is named Warnke

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

95% of people named Warnke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Warnke

Warnke has the Soundex code W652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W652.

Questions

How common is the surname Warnke?
2,767 people in the United States had the surname Warnke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 111,581 Americans. It ranked 11,395th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Warnke?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Warnke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Warnke getting more or less common?
More common. 2,682 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,767 in 2010, up 3.2%.