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The BENKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,087 22174 0 4
United States (1880 census) 284 14856 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +803 -7318 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 36 33129 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BENKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 137 11747 0.001 7
Minnesota 106 6731 0.002 22
California 80 26801 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 65 20982 0.001 5
Michigan 56 21420 0.001 6
Top States for BENKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 106 6731 0.002 22
North Dakota 7 12887 0.001 11
South Carolina 40 8456 0.001 10
Nevada 19 11230 0.001 10
Delaware 7 16855 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 BENKE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BENKE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BENKE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BENKE by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BENKE

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

Ethnic distribution of BENKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 22 2.02
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.74
White (Caucasian) 1,050 96.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of BENKE in historical publications

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

Similar names to BENKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BENKE.

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 BENKE

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