How common is the surname Yunker?

1,891 people in the United States had the surname Yunker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,271 Americans. It ranked 15,483rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Yunker getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,979 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,891 in 2010, down 4.4%.

The surname Yunker

A surname, carried by 1,891 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). Yunker is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,891 people named Yunker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,271 Americans. That is down 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,979.

#15,483

rank among US surnames

1,891

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-4.4%

change since 2000 (was #13,989)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,477	Parga	1,892	163,185
#15,483	Gridley	1,891	163,271

Who is named Yunker

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

97% of people named Yunker identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
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 Yunker

Yunker 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 Yunker?: 1,891 people in the United States had the surname Yunker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,271 Americans. It ranked 15,483rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yunker?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Yunker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as two or more races.
Is the surname Yunker getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,979 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,891 in 2010, down 4.4%.