The GERKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,416	11864	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	469	10182	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1947	-1682	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	173	8580	0.001	11
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for GERKE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	473	1423	0.009	88
Missouri	251	3086	0.004	45
Michigan	173	7415	0.002	17
Texas	159	11153	0.001	8
Ohio	142	9697	0.001	13
Top States for GERKE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	473	1423	0.009	88
Missouri	251	3086	0.004	45
Alaska	25	3774	0.004	40
Vermont	17	5402	0.003	28
Oregon	85	5277	0.002	25

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GERKE

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 GERKE 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 GERKE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	34	1.41
White (Hispanic)	22	0.91
Asian/Pacific	15	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	11	0.46
Black/African American	8	0.33
White (Caucasian)	2,326	96.27

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

Similar names to GERKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERKE.

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.