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The POKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 521 39678 0 2
United States (1880 census) 255 16121 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +266 -23557 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 334 4713 0.002 20
United Kingdom 98 23994 0 2
Top States for POKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 81 11634 0.001 14
Alabama 68 7644 0.002 15
Georgia 47 15267 0.001 6
Virginia 41 18953 0.001 6
Florida 39 51915 0.000 2
Top States for POKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 68 7644 0.002 15
Missouri 81 11634 0.001 14
Virginia 41 18953 0.001 6
Georgia 47 15267 0.001 6
Mississippi 15 14677 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of POKE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 448 85.99
White (Caucasian) 54 10.36
Mixed Race 7 1.34
Asian/Pacific 6 1.15
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of POKE in historical publications

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

Similar names to POKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POKE.

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 POKE

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