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The GOEKEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 437 46000 0 2
United States (1880 census) 20 73033 0 0
Change since 1880 +417 +27033 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GOEKEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 91 12703 0.001 7
Nebraska 59 3591 0.003 34
California 39 46509 0.000 1
Colorado 38 12000 0.001 9
Iowa 38 10279 0.001 13
Top States for GOEKEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 59 3591 0.003 34
South Dakota 18 6403 0.002 24
Iowa 38 10279 0.001 13
Colorado 38 12000 0.001 9
Wyoming 4 14342 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of GOEKEN

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

Ethnic distribution of GOEKEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 425 97.25
Mixed Race 6 1.37
White (Hispanic) 5 1.14
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of GOEKEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GOEKEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOEKEN.

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 GOEKEN

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