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The GIERKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 824 27526 0 3
United States (1880 census) 71 39637 0 1
Change since 1880 +753 +12111 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 99 14336 0.001 6
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GIERKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 93 13310 0.001 7
Wisconsin 78 10468 0.001 15
Ohio 69 17145 0.001 6
Montana 66 1660 0.007 73
Washington 60 11035 0.001 10
Top States for GIERKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 66 1660 0.007 73
North Dakota 38 2642 0.006 59
Wisconsin 78 10468 0.001 15
Wyoming 6 10017 0.001 12
Oregon 39 10208 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of GIERKE

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

Ethnic distribution of GIERKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 807 97.94
Mixed Race 5 0.61
White (Hispanic) 5 0.61
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
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 GIERKE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of GIERKE in historical publications

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

Similar names to GIERKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIERKE.

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 GIERKE

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