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The SHERK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,061 22612 0 4
United States (1880 census) 329 13326 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +732 -9286 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SHERK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 174 9276 0.001 14
Michigan 85 15997 0.001 9
New York 81 24371 0.000 4
California 77 30987 0.000 2
Florida 72 24155 0.000 5
Top States for SHERK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 14 8209 0.002 22
Delaware 15 9749 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 174 9276 0.001 14
Indiana 65 11530 0.001 11
Oregon 34 13535 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of SHERK

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

Ethnic distribution of SHERK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 17 1.6
White (Hispanic) 15 1.41
Mixed Race 14 1.32
White (Caucasian) 1,008 95
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of SHERK in historical publications

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

Similar names to SHERK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHERK.

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 SHERK

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