The POLAK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,002	9916	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	125	27051	0	3
Change since 1880	+2877	+17135	+N/A	+8
Other Countries
Australia	187	8025	0.001	11
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for POLAK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	417	4554	0.002	22
Illinois	297	4323	0.002	24
New Jersey	206	4614	0.002	24
California	197	12565	0.001	6
Florida	184	9882	0.001	12
Top States for POLAK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	96	2322	0.006	56
Rhode Island	43	3635	0.004	41
Alaska	18	5202	0.003	29
Vermont	15	5900	0.002	25
New Jersey	206	4614	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of POLAK

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POLAK 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.

Ethnic distribution of POLAK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	40	1.33
Mixed Race	28	0.93
Asian/Pacific	14	0.47
White (Caucasian)	2,913	97.04
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 POLAK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to POLAK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLAK.

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.