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

Haspel, 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 Haspel surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Haspel in America

Haspel is the 51723rd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Haspel surname appeared 402 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Haspel.

We can also compare 2010 data for Haspel 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 Haspel

The surname Haspel is believed to have originated in the German-speaking regions of Europe, specifically in the areas now known as Germany and Austria. The name can be traced back to the Middle Ages, around the 13th or 14th century.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Haspel appears in the records of the city of Nuremberg in the year 1383, where a certain Hanns Haspel is mentioned as a resident. The name is thought to have derived from the Middle High German word "haspel," which referred to a type of wooden reel or spool used for winding thread or yarn.

In the 15th century, the name Haspel can be found in various documents and records from different parts of Germany, such as in the town of Augsburg, where a family by the name of Haspel was mentioned in a tax register from 1472.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, as the Protestant Reformation swept across Europe, several individuals with the surname Haspel are recorded as having participated in the religious upheaval and the spread of new ideas. One notable figure was Johannes Haspel, a Lutheran theologian and pastor who lived from 1532 to 1597 in the region of Saxony.

In the 18th century, the Haspel name appears to have expanded beyond the German-speaking regions, with records showing individuals bearing this surname in neighboring countries like the Netherlands and Switzerland. One prominent example is the Swiss mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Haspel, who lived from 1728 to 1788 and made significant contributions to the field of optics.

As people migrated across Europe and eventually to other parts of the world, the Haspel surname spread further. In the 19th century, there are records of individuals with this name in countries such as France, where a certain Louis Haspel, a merchant, lived in Paris from 1825 to 1892.

Another notable figure was the German-American engineer and inventor Emil Haspel, who was born in 1868 in Saxony and later immigrated to the United States, where he patented several inventions related to textile machinery, reflecting the origins of the surname.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Haspel

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

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 Haspel 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 Haspel 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 Haspel was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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