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The BERK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,771 8101 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 537 9128 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +3234 +1027 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 61 21595 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BERK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 446 4218 0.002 24
California 420 6455 0.001 12
Florida 413 4748 0.003 26
Pennsylvania 330 4487 0.003 27
Illinois 231 5497 0.002 19
Top States for BERK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 104 4286 0.003 31
Washington DC 16 3430 0.003 28
Pennsylvania 330 4487 0.003 27
Florida 413 4748 0.003 26
Maryland 135 4213 0.003 25

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

Classification and Origin of BERK

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

Ethnic distribution of BERK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 88 2.33
White (Hispanic) 59 1.56
Mixed Race 31 0.82
Asian/Pacific 19 0.5
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.27
White (Caucasian) 3,564 94.51

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

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

Meaning of BERK in historical publications

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

Similar names to BERK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BERK.

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 BERK

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