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The FORKNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 705 31126 0 3
United States (1880 census) 448 10553 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +257 -20573 +N/A -6
Other Countries
Australia 1 304603 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FORKNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 71 25629 0.000 2
Missouri 54 10155 0.001 10
Washington 53 10820 0.001 9
Colorado 50 8620 0.001 12
Texas 48 23041 0.000 2
Top States for FORKNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 8 6770 0.002 16
Iowa 36 10027 0.001 12
Colorado 50 8620 0.001 12
Missouri 54 10155 0.001 10
Oregon 32 10754 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of FORKNER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FORKNER surname.

Ethnic distribution of FORKNER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 656 93.05
Black/African American 21 2.98
Mixed Race 10 1.42
White (Hispanic) 8 1.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

FORKNER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FORKNER in historical publications

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

Similar names to FORKNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FORKNER.

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 FORKNER

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