Find out how popular the last name Finkbeiner is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Finkbeiner.

Finkbeiner, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Finkbeiner surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Finkbeiner in America

Finkbeiner is the 16734th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Finkbeiner surname appeared 1,709 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Finkbeiner.

We can also compare 2010 data for Finkbeiner to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Finkbeiner

The surname FINKBEINER is of German origin and traces its roots back to the Middle Ages. It is a locational name, derived from the German word "Finkenbeiner," which refers to a person who lived near a place where finches gathered or nested.

The name is believed to have originated in the regions of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, where the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in parish records and local registries from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some of the earliest known spellings include Finckenbeyner, Finckenbainer, and Finckenbeyner.

One of the earliest documented references to the name FINKBEINER can be found in the Heidelberg Manuscripts, a collection of legal texts and records from the 15th century, where a certain Hans Finckenbeiner is mentioned in a land dispute case from 1472.

The name FINKBEINER also appears in various historical documents from the Holy Roman Empire, such as tax records and census lists. For instance, a family by the name of Finkbeiner is recorded in the town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the late 16th century.

Notable individuals who bore the surname FINKBEINER throughout history include Johann Friedrich Finkbeiner (1689-1761), a renowned clockmaker from Württemberg, and Karl Friedrich Finkbeiner (1816-1892), a German politician and member of the Reichstag from Baden.

Other prominent figures with the FINKBEINER name include Maximilian Finkbeiner (1842-1912), a German industrialist and founder of the Finkbeiner Machinery Company, and Hildegard Finkbeiner (1907-1994), a German author and poet known for her works on medieval folklore.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name FINKBEINER in North America dates back to the late 18th century, when Johannes Finkbeiner, a Hessian soldier, settled in Pennsylvania after serving in the American Revolutionary War.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Finkbeiner

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Finkbeiner.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Finkbeiner was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Finkbeiner has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Finkbeiner was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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