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The PLANK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,235 5162 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,969 3018 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +4266 -2144 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 79 17568 0 5
United Kingdom 663 7217 0.001 14
Top States for PLANK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 824 1803 0.007 67
California 481 5882 0.001 14
Ohio 422 3337 0.004 37
Florida 356 5584 0.002 22
Indiana 341 2260 0.006 56
Top States for PLANK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 824 1803 0.007 67
Indiana 341 2260 0.006 56
Missouri 290 2583 0.005 52
Oklahoma 158 2990 0.005 46
Idaho 57 3276 0.004 44

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

Classification and Origin of PLANK

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 PLANK 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 PLANK 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 PLANK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 67 1.07
White (Hispanic) 66 1.06
Native American/Alaskan 40 0.64
Asian/Pacific 27 0.43
Black/African American 18 0.29
White (Caucasian) 6,017 96.5

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

Meaning of PLANK in historical publications

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

Similar names to PLANK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLANK.

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 PLANK

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