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The FOLKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,121 21666 0 4
United States (1880 census) 180 20850 0 4
Change since 1880 +941 -816 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 122 11997 0.001 7
United Kingdom 769 6452 0.002 17
Top States for FOLKES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 223 8426 0.001 12
Florida 118 14490 0.001 7
Texas 88 16662 0.000 4
Illinois 67 19252 0.001 5
California 62 34094 0.000 2
Top States for FOLKES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 41 5846 0.001 14
New York 223 8426 0.001 12
Alabama 38 8668 0.001 9
Idaho 11 14071 0.001 9
Maryland 42 12540 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of FOLKES

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 FOLKES 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 FOLKES 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 FOLKES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 562 50.13
Black/African American 481 42.91
Mixed Race 48 4.28
White (Hispanic) 21 1.87
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 FOLKES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FOLKES in historical publications

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

Similar names to FOLKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOLKES.

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 FOLKES

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