The PLANK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,235	5162	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	1,969	3018	0.004	39
Change since 1880	+4266	-2144	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	79	17568	0	5
United Kingdom	663	7217	0.001	14

Top States for PLANK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	824	1803	0.007	67
California	481	5882	0.001	14
Ohio	422	3337	0.004	37
Florida	356	5584	0.002	22
Indiana	341	2260	0.006	56
Top States for PLANK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	824	1803	0.007	67
Indiana	341	2260	0.006	56
Missouri	290	2583	0.005	52
Oklahoma	158	2990	0.005	46
Idaho	57	3276	0.004	44

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

Classification and Origin of PLANK

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 PLANK 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 PLANK 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 PLANK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	67	1.07
White (Hispanic)	66	1.06
Native American/Alaskan	40	0.64
Asian/Pacific	27	0.43
Black/African American	18	0.29
White (Caucasian)	6,017	96.5

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

Similar names to PLANK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLANK.

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.