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The BIRK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,894 10221 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 866 6145 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +2028 -4076 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 40 30621 0 2
United Kingdom 277 13428 0.001 6
Top States for BIRK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 271 2639 0.005 48
Illinois 213 5812 0.002 17
Indiana 196 3789 0.003 32
California 183 13004 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 159 8988 0.001 13
Top States for BIRK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 149 2011 0.006 55
Missouri 271 2639 0.005 48
Indiana 196 3789 0.003 32
Minnesota 157 4199 0.003 32
South Dakota 15 7991 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of BIRK

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BIRK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BIRK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 78 2.7
Black/African American 63 2.18
White (Hispanic) 51 1.76
Mixed Race 37 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.28
White (Caucasian) 2,657 91.81

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

Meaning of BIRK in historical publications

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

Similar names to BIRK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRK.

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 BIRK

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