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The HOWK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 687 31774 0 2
United States (1880 census) 348 12769 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +339 -19005 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HOWK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 63 21809 0.000 3
New York 60 29296 0.000 3
Oklahoma 54 7355 0.002 16
Iowa 49 9154 0.002 17
Missouri 48 13493 0.001 9
Top States for HOWK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 49 9154 0.002 17
Oklahoma 54 7355 0.002 16
Minnesota 44 17229 0.001 9
Missouri 48 13493 0.001 9
Oregon 27 14940 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 HOWK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HOWK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HOWK in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HOWK by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HOWK

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

Ethnic distribution of HOWK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 663 96.51
Mixed Race 9 1.31
White (Hispanic) 9 1.31
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of HOWK in historical publications

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

Similar names to HOWK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOWK.

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 HOWK

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