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The PETERKA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 680 32026 0 2
United States (1880 census) 72 38883 0 1
Change since 1880 +608 +6857 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 7 118028 0 0
United Kingdom 1 37508 0 0
Top States for PETERKA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 123 5357 0.003 25
California 54 36730 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 46 27922 0.000 4
Wisconsin 46 17786 0.001 9
North Dakota 41 2332 0.006 64
Top States for PETERKA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 41 2332 0.006 64
South Dakota 36 3222 0.005 48
Minnesota 123 5357 0.003 25
Wisconsin 46 17786 0.001 9
Nebraska 12 18802 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of PETERKA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PETERKA surname.

Ethnic distribution of PETERKA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 657 96.62
White (Hispanic) 11 1.62
Mixed Race 7 1.03
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PETERKA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PETERKA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PETERKA.

Similar names to PETERKA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PETERKA.

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 PETERKA

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