The POLLAK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,090	9649	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	184	20536	0	4
Change since 1880	+2906	+10887	+N/A	+8
Other Countries
Australia	83	16833	0.001	5
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for POLLAK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	805	2168	0.004	42
California	396	6573	0.001	12
Florida	250	7273	0.002	16
New Jersey	220	4139	0.003	26
Pennsylvania	170	8365	0.001	14
Top States for POLLAK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	805	2168	0.004	42
New Jersey	220	4139	0.003	26
Vermont	14	5902	0.002	23
Connecticut	67	6419	0.002	20
Washington DC	10	5411	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of POLLAK

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	64	2.07
White (Hispanic)	57	1.84
Asian/Pacific	16	0.52
Black/African American	15	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.32
White (Caucasian)	2,928	94.76

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

Similar names to POLLAK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POLLAK.

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.