The OAKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	17,008	1943	0.006	63
United States (1880 census)	2,809	2174	0.006	56
Change since 1880	+14199	+231	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	1,121	1475	0.007	69
United Kingdom	6,660	950	0.015	145

Top States for OAKES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,178	1528	0.006	62
Pennsylvania	1,060	1322	0.009	86
California	1,014	3046	0.003	30
Virginia	906	987	0.013	128
Florida	886	2282	0.006	55
Top States for OAKES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	455	517	0.036	357
Vermont	93	1159	0.015	153
Delaware	105	1309	0.013	134
New Hampshire	162	1206	0.013	131
Virginia	906	987	0.013	128

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

Classification and Origin of OAKES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	645	3.79
White (Hispanic)	250	1.47
Mixed Race	247	1.45
Native American/Alaskan	197	1.16
Asian/Pacific	87	0.51
White (Caucasian)	15,583	91.62

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

Similar names to OAKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OAKES.

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.