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The AKERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 24,353 1330 0.009 90
United States (1880 census) 3,854 1595 0.008 77
Change since 1880 +20499 +265 +0.001 +13
Other Countries
Australia 594 2729 0.004 36
United Kingdom 1,926 3066 0.004 42
Top States for AKERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 2,722 309 0.038 385
Ohio 1,792 740 0.016 158
Kentucky 1,590 381 0.039 393
California 1,319 2490 0.004 39
West Virginia 1,227 183 0.068 679
Top States for AKERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,227 183 0.068 679
Kentucky 1,590 381 0.039 393
Virginia 2,722 309 0.038 385
Missouri 1,168 578 0.021 209
Indiana 1,134 631 0.019 186

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

Classification and Origin of AKERS

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 AKERS 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 AKERS 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 AKERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 319 1.31
White (Hispanic) 300 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 166 0.68
Asian/Pacific 100 0.41
White (Caucasian) 22,383 91.91
Black/African American 1,086 4.46

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

Meaning of AKERS in historical publications

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

Similar names to AKERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AKERS.

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 AKERS

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