'''Eckerle''' is a surname. According to Hanks,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJoDDAAAQBAJ&dq=Eckerle%20surname&pg=PA510|title=Dictionary of American Family Names|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=9780199771691|editor-last=Hanks|editor-first=Patrick|volume=1 (A—F)|location=New York, New York|pages=510|via=Google Books}}</ref> the surname is of South German origin and is a derivative of Eckert.<ref group="nt">Eckert is a disambiguation page which includes a list of people with the surname.</ref> A pair of published genealogies indicate the surname arriving in the United States from Germanic territories.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofgreenec02broa/page/939/mode/1up|title=History of Greene County, Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions|publisher=B. F. Bowen & Company|year=1918|editor-last=Broadstone|editor-first=M. A.|volume=II|pages=939|quote=George H. Eckerle, proprietor of the "Republican" job-printing plant in Xenia, was born in that city on March 12, 1875, son of Florentine and Catherine (Fey) Eckerle, both of European birth, the former born in the grand duchy of Baden and the latter....|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/portraitbiographdr00chic/page/1242/mode/1up|title=A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph Counties, Ind.|publisher=A. W. Bowen & Co.|year=1894|pages=1242|quote=Martin Eckerle ... is a native of Germany. He was born in Weitenung, Baden, February 7, 1836, and is a son of Norbert and Hannah (Reis) Eckerle. His parents were born and married in the fatherland....|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
== Prevalence ==
=== United States === The United States census provides resources related to the prevalence of surnames for its decennial national censuses. In the 2010 census, "Eckerle" appeared 764 times, or 0.26 times per 100,000 people, having an overall rank of 30,538 and was associated primarily (95.55%) with white respondents.<ref name="2010 US Census">{{Cite report|url=https://www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/2010surnames/names.zip|title=File B: Surnames Occurring 100 or more times (accessible from "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census")|date=2016<!--based on last edit for page from which file was accessible-->|publisher=United States Department of Commerce|publication-date=December 27, 2016|access-date=May 21, 2020|format=ZIP archive}}</ref> In the 2000 census, the surname appeared 787 times, or 0.29 times per 100,000 people, having an overall rank of 28,522 and was associated primarily (96.82%) with white respondents.<ref name="2000 US Census">{{Cite report|url=http://www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/2000surnames/names.zip|title=File B: Surnames Occurring 100 or more times (accessible from "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000")|date=2014<!--based on last edit for page from which file was accessible-->|publisher=United States Department of Commerce|publication-date=September 15, 2014|access-date=May 21, 2020|format=ZIP archive}}</ref> In the 1990 census, the surname had a rank of 47,576.<ref name="1990 US Census">{{Cite report|url=http://www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/1990surnames/dist.all.last?#|title=dist.all.last (accessible from "Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 1990 – Names Files")|date=October 1995<!--from the methodology file, "Name List: Documentation and Methodology"-->|publisher=United States Department of Commerce|publication-date=September 2, 2014|access-date=May 21, 2020|format=Plain text}}</ref> As of 1997, "Eckerle" was found 320 times out of 88.7 million names (about 0.36 times per 100,000 people) in a commercially available electronic phone registry.<ref name=":0" />
==People with the surname==
*Dinah Eckerle (b. 1995), German handballer *Franz Eckerle (1912–1942), German World War II flying ace *Isabella Eckerle, German virologist *Jeff Eckerle (b. bef. 1996), American television producer and writer
== Notes == {{Reflist|group=nt}}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Wiktionary|Eckerle}}{{Surname|Eckerle}}
Category:German-language surnames