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The BURK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,048 2215 0.006 56
United States (1880 census) 15,553 363 0.031 311
Change since 1880 -505 -1852 -0.025 -255
Other Countries
Australia 141 10436 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BURK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,682 1467 0.008 81
California 1,062 2950 0.003 31
Pennsylvania 996 1445 0.008 81
Michigan 792 1382 0.008 80
Ohio 779 1751 0.007 69
Top States for BURK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 549 837 0.016 159
Montana 117 907 0.013 130
Missouri 615 1138 0.011 110
Iowa 290 1184 0.010 99
Indiana 566 1287 0.009 93

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

Classification and Origin of BURK

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

Ethnic distribution of BURK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 500 3.32
White (Hispanic) 275 1.83
Mixed Race 194 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 90 0.6
Asian/Pacific 66 0.44
White (Caucasian) 13,922 92.52

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

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

Meaning of BURK in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURK.

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 BURK

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