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The BAKKEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,972 7721 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 203 19090 0 4
Change since 1880 +3769 +11369 +N/A +11
Other Countries
Australia 5 143290 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BAKKEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 1,272 298 0.026 259
Wisconsin 539 1069 0.010 100
California 282 8799 0.001 8
Washington 267 2595 0.005 45
North Dakota 254 179 0.040 396
Top States for BAKKEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 254 179 0.040 396
Minnesota 1,272 298 0.026 259
South Dakota 92 877 0.012 122
Montana 93 1077 0.010 103
Wisconsin 539 1069 0.010 100

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

Classification and Origin of BAKKEN

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

Ethnic distribution of BAKKEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 47 1.18
White (Hispanic) 35 0.88
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.55
Asian/Pacific 18 0.45
Black/African American 16 0.4
White (Caucasian) 3,834 96.53

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

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

Meaning of BAKKEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BAKKEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAKKEN.

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 BAKKEN

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