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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

'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.

Meaning of JENKS in historical publications

JENKS. See John.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JENKS

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