The NOKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,843	14778	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	366	12307	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+1477	-2471	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	65	20658	0	4
United Kingdom	731	6695	0.002	16

Top States for NOKES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	204	3723	0.004	36
California	171	14950	0.001	5
Texas	150	11632	0.001	7
Washington	138	5542	0.002	23
Utah	87	3322	0.004	39
Top States for NOKES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	87	3322	0.004	39
Tennessee	204	3723	0.004	36
Washington	138	5542	0.002	23
Wyoming	11	7049	0.002	22
Arkansas	52	5701	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of NOKES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	118	6.4
White (Hispanic)	26	1.41
Mixed Race	21	1.14
White (Caucasian)	1,659	90.02
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Meaning of NOKES in historical publications

NOAKES. NOKES. "At the Oak." See the prefix Atte, Atten. Aten Oke and Atten Oke were the original forms. When the preposition began to be dropped from this class of surnames, the final N in this instance adhered to the designation of the tree, and we obtained the form Noake, since vulgarly pluralized into Noakcs. A-Noke was a transitional form. John A-Noke, who, with his constant antagonist, John Atte Style, was formerly as well known in our law courts as the redoubtable John Doe and Richard Eoeof later times, was notliiug more than plain John Noakes ; and " Jack Noakes and Tom Styles," the phrase by Avhich we designate the ignobile vulgus, are lineal descendants of those litigious ' parties.' The surname Hayuoke appears to be identical with A-Noke, while Boaks is probably a crasis of " By Oaks." See the 131-efix By. See also the names Nye and Nash. Dean Trench has some apiDropriate remarks on the absorption of the article into the noun in some cases, but he does not seem to have remarked the corresponding adhesion of a part or the whole of a preposition, as in the cases above cited, as well as in Attwood, Agate, Twells, &c., &c. See Study of Works, ed. 1852, p. 1 18. See also Gloss, to Chaucer, edit. 1825.

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 NOKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOKES.

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.