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The ORKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 383 51119 0 1
United States (1880 census) 10 88954 0 0
Change since 1880 +373 +37835 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 12 75631 0 1
United Kingdom 27 27861 0 1
Top States for ORKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 62 24318 0.000 3
California 50 36065 0.000 1
Florida 43 30061 0.000 3
Massachusetts 31 20030 0.000 5
Georgia 27 15687 0.000 3
Top States for ORKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 31 20030 0.000 5
Connecticut 16 24028 0.000 5
New Hampshire 5 25711 0.000 4
Delaware 3 33611 0.000 4
Georgia 27 15687 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of ORKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 377 98.43
White (Hispanic) 5 1.31
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of ORKIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to ORKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORKIN.

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 ORKIN

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