Koenig

At the 2020 census, 21,084 Americans bore the surname Koenig — 1,667th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,200.

By the numbers

People: 21,084
Rank: 1,667th
How common: 1 in 14,200
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Koenig

Walter Koenig (born 1936)American actor and screenwriter
Ezra Koenig (born 1984)American rock musician
Andrew Koenig (1968–2010)American actor and film editor
Rudolph Koenig (1832–1901)German physicist
Friedrich Koenig (1774–1833)German printer
Fritz Koenig (1924–2017)German sculptor
Alexander Koenig (1858–1940)German naturalist
Lia Koenig (born 1929)Romanian Israeli Jewish actress

People named Koenig with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Koenig

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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.