Explore the Family Name Yahnke

The meaning of Yahnke

Americanized form of German Jahnke.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Yahnke in the United States?

Based on data from the Decennial U.S. Census, the popularity of the surname Yahnke saw a slight decline between 2000 to 2010. In 2000, it was ranked as the 34,150th most common surname in the United States and it slipped down to the 35,489th position in 2010, representing a change of -3.92 percent. Despite this dip in ranking, the actual number of people with the Yahnke surname increased marginally from 628 in 2000 to 634 in 2010, marking a growth rate of 0.96 percent. However, when adjusted for population growth, its proportion per 100,000 people decreased by 8.7 percent.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#34,150	#35,489	-3.92%
Count	628	634	0.96%
Proportion per 100k	0.23	0.21	-8.7%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Yahnke

The Census data also provides insights into the ethnicity breakdown for those bearing the surname Yahnke. As per the Decennial U.S. Census, the majority of individuals with the Yahnke surname identified as White in both 2000 and 2010, although there was a minor decrease from 98.57 percent to 97.32 percent over the decade. Notably, there were no Yahnkes who identified as Asian/Pacific Islander or Black in either year, while the percentage identifying as American Indian and Alaskan Native dropped from 0.80 percent in 2000 to none in 2010. Interestingly, there was an emergence of Yahnkes identifying with two or more races (1.10 percent) and as Hispanic (0.79 percent) in 2010. The data for these categories was suppressed in 2000 for privacy reasons.

	2000	2010	Change
White	98.57%	97.32%	-1.27%
Two or More Races	0%	1.1%	0%
Hispanic	0%	0.79%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Black	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.8%	0%	0%