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The ENGEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,567 1530 0.008 80
United States (1880 census) 70 40145 0 1
Change since 1880 +21497 +38615 +N/A +79
Other Countries
Australia 473 3380 0.003 29
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ENGEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,810 1699 0.005 53
New York 1,703 980 0.009 90
Wisconsin 1,512 280 0.028 282
Florida 1,364 1425 0.009 85
Illinois 1,247 914 0.010 100
Top States for ENGEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 517 240 0.030 302
Wisconsin 1,512 280 0.028 282
South Dakota 210 271 0.028 278
North Dakota 177 325 0.028 276
Minnesota 978 414 0.020 199

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ENGEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ENGEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ENGEL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ENGEL by picking someone at random in Nebraska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ENGEL

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ENGEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ENGEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 330 1.53
Mixed Race 235 1.09
Asian/Pacific 114 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 69 0.32
Black/African American 52 0.24
White (Caucasian) 20,767 96.29

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ENGEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ENGEL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ENGEL.

Similar names to ENGEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ENGEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ENGEL

The following words are slight variants of ENGEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.