The JENKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,138	4562	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	3,347	1834	0.007	67
Change since 1880	+3791	-2728	-0.004	-41
Other Countries
Australia	100	14318	0.001	6
United Kingdom	1,167	4641	0.003	25

Top States for JENKS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	650	4403	0.002	19
New York	613	3079	0.003	32
Michigan	590	1865	0.006	59
Florida	412	4782	0.003	26
Washington	294	2470	0.005	50
Top States for JENKS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	92	1157	0.015	151
Idaho	170	978	0.013	131
Oregon	236	1764	0.007	69
Utah	136	2127	0.006	61
New Hampshire	75	2461	0.006	61

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

Classification and Origin of JENKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JENKS 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 JENKS 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 JENKS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	164	2.3
White (Hispanic)	143	2
Mixed Race	133	1.86
Native American/Alaskan	62	0.87
Asian/Pacific	60	0.84
White (Caucasian)	6,576	92.13

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

Similar names to JENKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JENKS.

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.