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The PLUNK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,031 13696 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 267 15599 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +1764 +1903 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PLUNK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 619 1346 0.011 109
Texas 435 4567 0.002 21
Mississippi 139 2461 0.005 49
Illinois 103 12127 0.001 8
Oklahoma 95 4360 0.003 28
Top States for PLUNK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 619 1346 0.011 109
Mississippi 139 2461 0.005 49
Arkansas 76 3900 0.003 28
Oklahoma 95 4360 0.003 28
Texas 435 4567 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of PLUNK

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

Ethnic distribution of PLUNK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 26 1.28
Mixed Race 24 1.18
Black/African American 15 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.74
Asian/Pacific 9 0.44
White (Caucasian) 1,942 95.62

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

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

Meaning of PLUNK in historical publications

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

Similar names to PLUNK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLUNK.

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 PLUNK

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