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The CORK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,511 11500 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 909 5914 0.002 18
Change since 1880 +1602 -5586 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 473 3383 0.003 29
United Kingdom 2,147 2784 0.005 47
Top States for CORK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 217 3079 0.005 49
Illinois 176 8187 0.001 14
Michigan 157 8761 0.002 16
Texas 156 11817 0.001 7
Indiana 154 5403 0.003 25
Top States for CORK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 98 2537 0.005 54
Alaska 31 3230 0.005 49
Alabama 217 3079 0.005 49
Mississippi 119 3084 0.004 42
Wyoming 18 4232 0.004 36

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

Classification and Origin of CORK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CORK 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CORK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CORK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 586 23.34
Mixed Race 33 1.31
White (Hispanic) 27 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 21 0.84
Asian/Pacific 7 0.28
White (Caucasian) 1,837 73.16

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

Meaning of CORK in historical publications

CORK. Not from the Irish citj, as has been conjectured, but from Core, an ancient Celtic personal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CORK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORK.

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 CORK

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