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The OAKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,982 4646 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 3,002 2040 0.006 60
Change since 1880 +3980 -2606 -0.003 -34
Other Countries
Australia 8 102198 0 0
United Kingdom 99 23943 0 2
Top States for OAKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 651 1402 0.011 114
Ohio 500 2877 0.004 44
Texas 435 4953 0.002 21
Kentucky 401 1476 0.010 99
Florida 362 5656 0.002 23
Top States for OAKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 651 1402 0.011 114
Kentucky 401 1476 0.010 99
Utah 191 1641 0.009 86
Mississippi 155 2435 0.005 54
Wyoming 26 2588 0.005 53

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

Classification and Origin of OAKS

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 OAKS 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 OAKS 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 OAKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 529 7.58
Mixed Race 108 1.55
White (Hispanic) 82 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.66
Asian/Pacific 25 0.36
White (Caucasian) 6,192 88.69

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

Meaning of OAKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to OAKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OAKS.

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 OAKS

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