The surname Yonker
A surname, carried by 2,064 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex Y526
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,064 people named Yonker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 149,586 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,870.
#14,468
rank among US surnames
2,064
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+10.4%
change since 2000 (was #14,599)
Who is named Yonker
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Yonker identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Yonker 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 Yonker?
- 2,064 people in the United States had the surname Yonker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 149,586 Americans. It ranked 14,468th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Yonker?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Yonker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Yonker getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,870 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,064 in 2010, up 10%.