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The DANKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,412 18177 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 381 11935 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1031 -6242 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 215 7031 0.001 13
United Kingdom 1,886 3107 0.004 41
Top States for DANKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 150 7969 0.002 15
Pennsylvania 97 14414 0.001 8
Minnesota 89 8171 0.002 18
California 83 25873 0.000 2
Florida 75 20878 0.000 5
Top States for DANKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 75 1081 0.012 117
Minnesota 89 8171 0.002 18
Michigan 150 7969 0.002 15
Delaware 10 12033 0.001 13
Kentucky 50 7022 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of DANKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DANKS 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 DANKS 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 DANKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 68 4.82
Black/African American 32 2.27
White (Hispanic) 19 1.35
White (Caucasian) 1,274 90.23
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of DANKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to DANKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DANKS.

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 DANKS

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