Kuhl

Kuhl is the 5,730th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,823 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 51,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,823
Rank: 5,730th
How common: 1 in 51,300
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From the German surname, from the noun Kuhle (“hollow, cave”). Also from the adjective kühl (“cool, fresh”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Kuhl

Heinrich Kuhl (1797–1821)German naturalist and zoologist
Patrick Kühl (born 1968)German swimmer
Kathrine Kühl (born 2003)Danish association football player

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

Surnames like Kuhl

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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.