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    The surname Ask

    A Swedish surname, carried by 585 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex A200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ask is more common than 76.6% of them.

    Origin

    Swedish origin

    Borrowed from Swedish Ask, from ask (“ash tree”), ultimately also from askr (“ash tree”). Doublet of Ash.

    One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 585 people named Ask in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 527,770 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 528.

    #37,955
    rank among US surnames
    585
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.8%
    change since 2000 (was #39,240)

    Who is named Ask

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Ask identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Ask

    Ask has the Soundex code A200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A200.

    Other Swedish surnames

    All 133 Swedish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Ask come from?
    Borrowed from Swedish Ask, from ask (“ash tree”), ultimately also from askr (“ash tree”). Doublet of Ash.
    How common is the surname Ask?
    585 people in the United States had the surname Ask in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 527,770 Americans. It ranked 37,955th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ask?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ask identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Ask getting more or less common?
    More common. 528 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 585 in 2010, up 11%.