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The DIRK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 513 40203 0 2
United States (1880 census) 187 20273 0 4
Change since 1880 +326 -19930 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 3 187476 0 0
United Kingdom 6 31903 0 0
Top States for DIRK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 75 1013 0.012 117
California 51 38465 0.000 2
Ohio 43 25298 0.000 4
Washington 39 16241 0.001 7
Wisconsin 37 21224 0.001 7
Top States for DIRK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 75 1013 0.012 117
South Dakota 18 6740 0.002 24
Wisconsin 37 21224 0.001 7
Washington 39 16241 0.001 7
New Mexico 12 11074 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of DIRK

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

Ethnic distribution of DIRK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 480 93.57
White (Hispanic) 14 2.73
Black/African American 9 1.75
Mixed Race 5 0.97
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of DIRK in historical publications

DIRK. DIRCKS. Corruptions of Derick.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DIRK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DIRK.

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 DIRK

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