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

Kaltenbach, 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 Kaltenbach surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Kaltenbach in America

Kaltenbach is the 19911th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Kaltenbach surname appeared 1,348 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 Kaltenbach.

We can also compare 2010 data for Kaltenbach 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 Kaltenbach

The surname Kaltenbach originated in Germany during the late Middle Ages. It is a locative surname, derived from the name of a place, specifically a small village called Kaltenbach located in the southern regions of Germany near the Austrian border. The name is composed of two German words: "kalt" meaning cold, and "bach" meaning brook or stream, indicating that the name likely referred to a cold stream or brook running through or near the village.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the surname Kaltenbach can be found in the Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae, a collection of historical documents from Saxony, dating back to the early 15th century. This suggests that the name was in use as a hereditary surname by this time period.

In the 16th century, a notable figure bearing the Kaltenbach name was Johann Kaltenbach, a German theologian and reformer born in 1510. He played a significant role in the Protestant Reformation, working closely with Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon.

Another notable individual with this surname was Johann Baptist Kaltenbach, a 19th-century Austrian entomologist and botanist who lived from 1805 to 1876. He made significant contributions to the study of insects and plants, publishing several works on these subjects.

In the realm of literature, Carl Friedrich Kaltenbach, born in 1788 and died in 1849, was a German writer and philologist known for his translations of ancient Greek and Roman texts.

Moving forward in time, Wilhelm Kaltenbach, a German artist and lithographer, lived from 1838 to 1914. He was known for his landscapes and urban scenes, particularly those depicting the city of Berlin.

While the surname Kaltenbach is most prevalent in Germany and Austria, it has also spread to other parts of the world through emigration, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Kaltenbach

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

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

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