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The FUNK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,032 1351 0.009 89
United States (1880 census) 7,485 807 0.015 150
Change since 1880 +16547 -544 -0.006 -61
Other Countries
Australia 120 12132 0.001 7
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FUNK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 2,187 547 0.018 178
California 1,719 1857 0.005 51
Ohio 1,669 755 0.015 147
Illinois 1,572 736 0.013 127
Virginia 1,151 750 0.016 163
Top States for FUNK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 718 338 0.027 267
Idaho 254 633 0.020 196
Iowa 565 513 0.019 193
Utah 424 679 0.019 190
West Virginia 333 826 0.018 184

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

Classification and Origin of FUNK

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Ethnic distribution of FUNK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 288 1.2
Mixed Race 240 1
Asian/Pacific 137 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 96 0.4
Black/African American 72 0.3
White (Caucasian) 23,200 96.54

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

Meaning of FUNK in historical publications

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

Similar names to FUNK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FUNK.

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 FUNK

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