Knickerbocker

Knickerbocker is the 11,250th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,686 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 111,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,686
Rank: 11,250th
How common: 1 in 111,000
Per 100,000: 0.90

Where the name comes from

Origin Dutch

From Diedrich Knickerbocker, the pseudonym adopted by Washington Irving for his 1809 A History of New York, probably for the Knickerbackers of Schaghticoke, New York, descended from the Dutch immigrant Harmen Jansen van Bommel(l), who went variously by the names van Wy(y)e, van Wyekycback(e), Kinnekerbacker, Knickelbacker, Knickerbacker, Kinckerbacker, Nyckbacker, and Kynckbacker.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Knickerbocker described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Surnames like Knickerbocker

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.