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The FOULKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,660 16042 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 546 8984 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1114 -7058 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 51 26087 0 1
Top States for FOULKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 200 3792 0.004 35
Illinois 122 11305 0.001 10
New Jersey 120 8481 0.001 14
South Carolina 104 4702 0.003 26
Indiana 91 8255 0.001 15
Top States for FOULKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 200 3792 0.004 35
South Carolina 104 4702 0.003 26
Indiana 91 8255 0.001 15
New Jersey 120 8481 0.001 14
Missouri 75 9559 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of FOULKS

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

Ethnic distribution of FOULKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 581 35
White (Hispanic) 32 1.93
Mixed Race 19 1.14
White (Caucasian) 1,020 61.45
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 FOULKS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of FOULKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to FOULKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOULKS.

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 FOULKS

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