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The GREEK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,621 16360 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 401 11477 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1220 -4883 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 30 27528 0 1
Top States for GREEK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 257 13100 0.001 8
Florida 159 14744 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 148 13312 0.001 12
Missouri 118 8002 0.002 21
New York 115 21464 0.001 6
Top States for GREEK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 14 9971 0.002 22
Missouri 118 8002 0.002 21
Wyoming 6 14385 0.001 12
Pennsylvania 148 13312 0.001 12
Delaware 9 17625 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of GREEK

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

Ethnic distribution of GREEK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 172 10.61
White (Hispanic) 32 1.97
Mixed Race 26 1.6
White (Caucasian) 1,388 85.63
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 GREEK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GREEK in historical publications

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

Similar names to GREEK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREEK.

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 GREEK

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