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The NEWARK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 320 59147 0 1
United States (1880 census) 109 29726 0 2
Change since 1880 +211 -29421 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 16 60544 0 1
United Kingdom 308 12514 0.001 7
Top States for NEWARK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 84 20976 0.000 4
California 43 46820 0.000 1
Ohio 27 39271 0.000 2
Massachusetts 20 33898 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 20 61483 0.000 2
Top States for NEWARK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 5 15543 0.001 8
Nevada 11 20002 0.001 6
Delaware 4 26504 0.001 5
New York 84 20976 0.000 4
Massachusetts 20 33898 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 NEWARK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NEWARK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NEWARK in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NEWARK by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NEWARK

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 280 87.5
Black/African American 24 7.5
Native American/Alaskan 7 2.19
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of NEWARK in historical publications

NEWARK. A town in co. Notts, and places in the shires of Renfrew and Ajt.

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 NEWARK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEWARK.

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 NEWARK

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