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    The surname Winkle

    A surname, carried by 4,077 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex W524

    Winkle: #8,131 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Winkle #8,131, 4,077 people Winkle: #8,131 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Winkle #8,131, 4,077 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Winkle is more common than 95% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,077 people named Winkle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,729 Americans. That is up 4.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,896.

    #8,131
    rank among US surnames
    4,077
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.6%
    change since 2000 (was #7,883)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,127Crew4,08175,654
    #8,128Anson4,07975,691
    #8,130Shuck4,07875,710
    #8,131Armentrout4,07775,729
    #8,133Rennie4,07675,747

    Who is named Winkle

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

    94% of people named Winkle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Winkle

    Winkle has the Soundex code W524, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W524.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Winkle?
    4,077 people in the United States had the surname Winkle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,729 Americans. It ranked 8,131st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Winkle?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Winkle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Winkle getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,896 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,077 in 2010, up 4.6%.