How common is the surname Yinger?

1,040 people in the United States had the surname Yinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 296,871 Americans. It ranked 24,174th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Yinger?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Yinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Yinger getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,040 in 2010, down 0.7%.

The surname Yinger

A surname, carried by 1,040 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Y526

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yinger is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,040 people named Yinger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 296,871 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,047.

#24,174

rank among US surnames

1,040

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.7%

change since 2000 (was #22,833)

Who is named Yinger

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

95% of people named Yinger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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 Yinger

Younger

Yinger has the Soundex code Y526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y526.

Questions

How common is the surname Yinger?: 1,040 people in the United States had the surname Yinger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 296,871 Americans. It ranked 24,174th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yinger?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Yinger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Yinger getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,040 in 2010, down 0.7%.