Eckerle is a surname. According to Hanks,
the surname is of South German origin and is a derivative of Eckert.
[ Eckert is a disambiguation page which includes a list of people with the surname.] A pair of published genealogies indicate the surname arriving in the United States from Germanic territories.
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.
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.
In the 1990 census, the surname had a rank of 47,576.
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.
People with the surname
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Dinah Eckerle (b. 1995), German handballer
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Franz Eckerle
Franz Eckerle (24 April 1912 – 14 February 1942) was a German Luftwaffe military aviation, military aviator and aerobatics pilot. As a fighter ace during World War II, he was credited with 59 aerial victories, four over the Allies of World War ...
(1912–1942), German World War II flying ace
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Isabella Eckerle
Isabella Eckerle is a German virologist who is the co-Head of the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva. Her research considers infectious diseases and the development of cell lines t ...
, German virologist
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Jeff Eckerle
Jeff Eckerle is an American television producer and writer. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin (BA) and the UCLA Anderson School of Management (MBA), and worked as a development and programming executive for Fox (FBC), CBS Producti ...
(b. bef. 1996), American television producer and writer
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References
{{Surname, Eckerle
German-language surnames