The BIRK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,894	10221	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	866	6145	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+2028	-4076	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	40	30621	0	2
United Kingdom	277	13428	0.001	6

Top States for BIRK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Missouri	271	2639	0.005	48
Illinois	213	5812	0.002	17
Indiana	196	3789	0.003	32
California	183	13004	0.001	5
Pennsylvania	159	8988	0.001	13
Top States for BIRK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kansas	149	2011	0.006	55
Missouri	271	2639	0.005	48
Indiana	196	3789	0.003	32
Minnesota	157	4199	0.003	32
South Dakota	15	7991	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of BIRK

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BIRK 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.

Ethnic distribution of BIRK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	78	2.7
Black/African American	63	2.18
White (Hispanic)	51	1.76
Mixed Race	37	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	8	0.28
White (Caucasian)	2,657	91.81

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

Similar names to BIRK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIRK.

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.