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The GARFINKEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,539 17014 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) -1 116572 0 0
Change since 1880 +1540 +99558 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 5 140394 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GARFINKEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 446 4170 0.002 24
California 183 13098 0.001 5
Florida 181 9810 0.001 11
New Jersey 138 6799 0.002 16
Pennsylvania 96 14606 0.001 8
Top States for GARFINKEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 446 4170 0.002 24
Washington DC 11 4699 0.002 19
Vermont 11 7192 0.002 18
New Jersey 138 6799 0.002 16
Delaware 11 11095 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of GARFINKEL

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

Ethnic distribution of GARFINKEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 24 1.56
Mixed Race 14 0.91
Black/African American 5 0.32
White (Caucasian) 1,492 96.95
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 GARFINKEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GARFINKEL in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARFINKEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARFINKEL.

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 GARFINKEL

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