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The BURKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 26,115 1232 0.01 97
United States (1880 census) 4,135 1494 0.008 83
Change since 1880 +21980 +262 +0.002 +14
Other Countries
Australia 5 136987 0 0
United Kingdom 318 12263 0.001 7
Top States for BURKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 3,236 857 0.016 155
California 1,800 1942 0.005 53
Alabama 1,620 479 0.036 364
Tennessee 1,520 618 0.027 267
Missouri 1,290 532 0.023 231
Top States for BURKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 1,119 307 0.042 419
Mississippi 1,165 398 0.041 410
Alabama 1,620 479 0.036 364
Tennessee 1,520 618 0.027 267
Missouri 1,290 532 0.023 231

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

Classification and Origin of BURKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BURKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BURKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 462 1.77
White (Hispanic) 441 1.69
Native American/Alaskan 118 0.45
Asian/Pacific 63 0.24
White (Caucasian) 14,230 54.49
Black/African American 10,804 41.37

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

Meaning of BURKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BURKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BURKS.

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 BURKS

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