The JACK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	13,990	2376	0.005	52
United States (1880 census)	4,026	1536	0.008	81
Change since 1880	+9964	-840	-0.003	-29
Other Countries
Australia	1,495	1098	0.009	91
United Kingdom	6,927	903	0.015	151

Top States for JACK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,234	2587	0.004	36
Louisiana	1,026	632	0.023	230
Texas	1,006	2368	0.005	48
New York	989	1866	0.005	52
Pennsylvania	769	1952	0.006	63
Top States for JACK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,026	632	0.023	230
Alaska	143	501	0.023	228
West Virginia	243	1128	0.013	134
Maine	163	1511	0.013	128
Oklahoma	340	1415	0.010	99

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of JACK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JACK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JACK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JACK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	767	5.48
Mixed Race	297	2.12
White (Hispanic)	208	1.49
Asian/Pacific	143	1.02
White (Caucasian)	8,860	63.33
Black/African American	3,717	26.57

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

Similar names to JACK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JACK.

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.