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The GURKA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 621 34503 0 2
United States (1880 census) 19 75266 0 0
Change since 1880 +602 +40763 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 6 133931 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GURKA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 164 10257 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 54 25008 0.000 4
Florida 41 35270 0.000 3
California 36 55491 0.000 1
New York 34 49497 0.000 2
Top States for GURKA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 12 11179 0.001 11
Vermont 6 13291 0.001 10
Texas 164 10257 0.001 8
New Hampshire 8 17796 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 54 25008 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of GURKA

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

Ethnic distribution of GURKA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 605 97.42
White (Hispanic) 7 1.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GURKA in historical publications

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

Similar names to GURKA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GURKA.

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 GURKA

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