The BARKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	85,221	325	0.032	316
United States (1880 census)	24,047	214	0.048	481
Change since 1880	+61174	-111	-0.016	-165
Other Countries
Australia	7,626	166	0.047	467
United Kingdom	44,191	98	0.096	962

Top States for BARKER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	6,616	470	0.020	195
Texas	6,231	388	0.030	299
Ohio	5,478	196	0.048	483
Florida	4,817	357	0.030	301
North Carolina	3,839	272	0.048	477
Top States for BARKER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,865	92	0.103	1,031
Utah	1,843	93	0.083	825
Maine	843	260	0.066	661
Kentucky	2,573	195	0.064	637
Idaho	779	161	0.060	602

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BARKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	537	0.63
Asian/Pacific	409	0.48
White (Caucasian)	75,455	88.54
Black/African American	6,170	7.24
Mixed Race	1,210	1.42
White (Hispanic)	1,440	1.69

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

Similar names to BARKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARKER.

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.