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The RANKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 162 102691 0 1
United States (1880 census) 36 58579 0 1
Change since 1880 +126 -44112 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 8 101311 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RANKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 48 4374 0.004 38
Illinois 14 96425 0.000 1
Tennessee 14 26558 0.000 2
Ohio 11 94612 0.000 1
Florida 10 153880 0.000 1
Top States for RANKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 48 4374 0.004 38
New Hampshire 10 18663 0.001 8
Vermont 3 33391 0.000 5
Hawaii 3 41737 0.000 2
Tennessee 14 26558 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of RANKS

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

Ethnic distribution of RANKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 135 83.33
Black/African American 21 12.96
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
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 RANKS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of RANKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to RANKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RANKS.

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 RANKS

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