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The GURKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 392 50178 0 1
United States (1880 census) 36 58531 0 1
Change since 1880 +356 +8353 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 17 57680 0 1
United Kingdom 22 28341 0 0
Top States for GURKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 172 4736 0.002 21
Virginia 39 14140 0.001 6
Tennessee 27 13412 0.000 5
Florida 23 57455 0.000 1
Texas 16 57016 0.000 1
Top States for GURKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 12 5548 0.002 24
North Carolina 172 4736 0.002 21
Virginia 39 14140 0.001 6
Tennessee 27 13412 0.000 5
South Carolina 14 17985 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of GURKIN

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

Ethnic distribution of GURKIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 379 96.68
White (Hispanic) 5 1.28
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 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 GURKIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GURKIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to GURKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GURKIN.

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 GURKIN

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