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The OAK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 932 25006 0 4
United States (1880 census) 214 18331 0 4
Change since 1880 +718 -6675 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 34 34193 0 2
United Kingdom 390 10625 0.001 8
Top States for OAK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 107 16555 0.000 3
New Jersey 93 7789 0.001 11
New York 60 22673 0.000 3
Illinois 55 17849 0.000 4
Michigan 50 18484 0.001 5
Top States for OAK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 13 8490 0.001 14
North Dakota 8 10238 0.001 12
Maine 15 7225 0.001 12
New Jersey 93 7789 0.001 11
Connecticut 29 11811 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of OAK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OAK 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 OAK 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 OAK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 685 73.5
Asian/Pacific 200 21.46
White (Hispanic) 21 2.25
Mixed Race 15 1.61
Black/African American 6 0.64
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.54

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

Meaning of OAK in historical publications

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

Similar names to OAK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OAK.

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 OAK

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