The PLUNKETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,571	3133	0.004	39
United States (1880 census)	2,029	2950	0.004	41
Change since 1880	+8542	-183	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	1,094	1515	0.007	67
United Kingdom	1,803	3216	0.004	39

Top States for PLUNKETT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	802	2923	0.004	38
California	761	3975	0.002	22
New York	600	3269	0.003	32
Georgia	531	1963	0.006	65
Florida	470	4379	0.003	29
Top States for PLUNKETT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	285	1271	0.011	107
Mississippi	283	1491	0.010	99
Alabama	399	1783	0.009	90
Tennessee	433	1988	0.008	76
Oklahoma	256	1877	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of PLUNKETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	808	7.64
White (Hispanic)	195	1.84
Mixed Race	169	1.6
Asian/Pacific	131	1.24
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.37
White (Caucasian)	9,228	87.3

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

Similar names to PLUNKETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLUNKETT.

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.