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The SYKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 26,425 1214 0.01 98
United States (1880 census) 5,457 1106 0.011 109
Change since 1880 +20968 -108 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 1,923 851 0.012 118
United Kingdom 14,313 415 0.031 312
Top States for SYKES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,427 502 0.030 302
Virginia 1,871 476 0.026 264
Florida 1,629 1355 0.010 102
California 1,623 2087 0.005 48
Illinois 1,409 915 0.011 113
Top States for SYKES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,229 359 0.043 432
North Carolina 2,427 502 0.030 302
Virginia 1,871 476 0.026 264
Tennessee 1,205 783 0.021 212
Washington DC 101 664 0.018 177

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

Classification and Origin of SYKES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 457 1.73
White (Hispanic) 333 1.26
Asian/Pacific 90 0.34
Native American/Alaskan 82 0.31
White (Caucasian) 14,917 56.45
Black/African American 10,546 39.91

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

Meaning of SYKES in historical publications

SYKES. JNIay be a nickname for Simon, like Gilkes for Gilbert, Hicks for Isaac, &c. It may, however, be local, as a sike in some dialects means a small rill, spring, or waterfall.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SYKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SYKES.

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 SYKES

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