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The JENCKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 651 33142 0 2
United States (1880 census) 340 12984 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +311 -20158 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 5 32499 0 0
Top States for JENCKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 89 1690 0.008 85
California 63 32615 0.000 2
Florida 54 27356 0.000 3
Massachusetts 49 14561 0.001 8
Michigan 44 26021 0.000 4
Top States for JENCKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 89 1690 0.008 85
South Dakota 13 9326 0.002 17
New Hampshire 21 7077 0.002 17
Maine 17 7830 0.001 13
Alaska 6 15009 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of JENCKS

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

Ethnic distribution of JENCKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 621 95.39
Mixed Race 13 2
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.92
White (Hispanic) 5 0.77
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of JENCKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to JENCKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JENCKS.

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 JENCKS

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