How common is the surname Wolken?

1,548 people in the United States had the surname Wolken in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 199,448 Americans. It ranked 18,028th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wolken?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wolken identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wolken getting more or less common?

More common. 1,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,548 in 2010, up 32%.

The surname Wolken

A German surname, carried by 1,548 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex W425

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wolken is more common than 88.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Wolken.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,548 people named Wolken in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 199,448 Americans. That is up 32% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,174.

#18,028

rank among US surnames

1,548

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+31.9%

change since 2000 (was #20,898)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,028	Andrada	1,548	199,448
#18,036	Erhart	1,547	199,577

Who is named Wolken

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

96% of people named Wolken identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Two or more races 0.7%

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 Wolken

Wolken has the Soundex code W425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W425.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Wolken come from?: Borrowed from German Wolken.
How common is the surname Wolken?: 1,548 people in the United States had the surname Wolken in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 199,448 Americans. It ranked 18,028th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wolken?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wolken identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wolken getting more or less common?: More common. 1,174 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,548 in 2010, up 32%.