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The OAKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 17,008 1943 0.006 63
United States (1880 census) 2,809 2174 0.006 56
Change since 1880 +14199 +231 0 +7
Other Countries
Australia 1,121 1475 0.007 69
United Kingdom 6,660 950 0.015 145
Top States for OAKES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,178 1528 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 1,060 1322 0.009 86
California 1,014 3046 0.003 30
Virginia 906 987 0.013 128
Florida 886 2282 0.006 55
Top States for OAKES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 455 517 0.036 357
Vermont 93 1159 0.015 153
Delaware 105 1309 0.013 134
New Hampshire 162 1206 0.013 131
Virginia 906 987 0.013 128

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

Classification and Origin of OAKES

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 OAKES 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 OAKES 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 OAKES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 645 3.79
White (Hispanic) 250 1.47
Mixed Race 247 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 197 1.16
Asian/Pacific 87 0.51
White (Caucasian) 15,583 91.62

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

Meaning of OAKES in historical publications

OxVK. OAKES. From residence near a tree or trees of this species. See art. Noakes. There is however a parish called Oake in Somersetshire. Del Oke. H.R.

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 OAKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OAKES.

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 OAKES

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