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The TONKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 550 37938 0 2
United States (1880 census) 71 39595 0 1
Change since 1880 +479 +1657 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 570 2850 0.003 35
United Kingdom 3,089 2017 0.007 67
Top States for TONKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 69 31450 0.000 2
Idaho 68 2654 0.005 53
Florida 52 29629 0.000 3
Utah 49 5021 0.002 22
Pennsylvania 40 33991 0.000 3
Top States for TONKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 68 2654 0.005 53
Utah 49 5021 0.002 22
Vermont 5 18504 0.001 8
Rhode Island 6 22730 0.001 6
New Hampshire 7 22408 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of TONKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 528 96
Mixed Race 12 2.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of TONKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to TONKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TONKS.

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 TONKS

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