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The BALKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,380 18473 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 221 17908 0 4
Change since 1880 +1159 -565 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 87 16011 0.001 5
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BALKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 173 4901 0.003 32
Texas 154 11589 0.001 7
Missouri 149 5156 0.003 27
Illinois 114 12279 0.001 9
California 108 22513 0.000 3
Top States for BALKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 173 4901 0.003 32
Missouri 149 5156 0.003 27
Montana 15 10106 0.002 17
Delaware 10 13119 0.001 13
Colorado 49 11323 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BALKE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BALKE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BALKE in Wisconsin than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BALKE by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BALKE

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BALKE surname.

Ethnic distribution of BALKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 31 2.25
Mixed Race 14 1.01
Black/African American 13 0.94
White (Caucasian) 1,319 95.58
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BALKE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BALKE is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BALKE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BALKE.

Similar names to BALKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BALKE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BALKE

The following words are slight variants of BALKE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.