The surname Zabel
A German surname, carried by 3,717 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex Z140
Origin
German origin
Borrowed from German Zabel.
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 3,717 people named Zabel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,063 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,722.
Who is named Zabel
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Zabel identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Zabel has the Soundex code Z140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z140.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Zabel come from?
- Borrowed from German Zabel.
- How common is the surname Zabel?
- 3,717 people in the United States had the surname Zabel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,063 Americans. It ranked 8,808th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Zabel?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Zabel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Zabel getting more or less common?
- Less common. 3,722 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,717 in 2010, down 0.1%.