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The BUFKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,488 17466 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 171 21609 0 3
Change since 1880 +1317 +4143 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BUFKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 416 1085 0.015 146
Texas 213 8710 0.001 10
Louisiana 115 4701 0.003 26
California 95 24469 0.000 3
Michigan 88 14586 0.001 9
Top States for BUFKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 416 1085 0.015 146
Louisiana 115 4701 0.003 26
Indiana 70 10269 0.001 12
Texas 213 8710 0.001 10
South Carolina 40 8828 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of BUFKIN

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

Ethnic distribution of BUFKIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 310 20.83
Mixed Race 22 1.48
White (Hispanic) 18 1.21
Asian/Pacific 6 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.4
White (Caucasian) 1,126 75.67

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

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

Meaning of BUFKIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to BUFKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BUFKIN.

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 BUFKIN

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