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The EK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,568 16769 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 106 30386 0 2
Change since 1880 +1462 +13617 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 16 62120 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for EK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 284 9941 0.001 8
Washington 188 4275 0.003 32
Minnesota 176 4234 0.004 36
Florida 63 27270 0.000 4
Texas 63 23362 0.000 3
Top States for EK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 176 4234 0.004 36
Washington 188 4275 0.003 32
Montana 20 7708 0.002 22
Utah 36 6643 0.002 16
New Mexico 23 7146 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of EK

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

Ethnic distribution of EK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 216 13.78
White (Hispanic) 176 11.22
Mixed Race 30 1.91
White (Caucasian) 1,138 72.58
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of EK in historical publications

EK.

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 EK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EK.

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.