How common is the surname Berk?

3,754 people in the United States had the surname Berk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. It ranked 8,736th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Berk?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Berk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Berk?

Bobby Berk, American interior designer and reality television personality, followed by Dick Berk.

Where is the surname Berk most common?

Wikidata records people named Berk in the United States.

Is the surname Berk getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,771 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,754 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Berk

A surname, carried by 3,754 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Berk is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

* As a Dutch, Czech, and Polish surname, from a Germanic personal name stemming from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Also see Bernhard. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from the word for birch tree, from Proto-West Germanic *berku. * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Berg.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,754 people named Berk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,771.

#8,736

rank among US surnames

3,754

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #8,101)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,728	Werth	3,757	82,179
#8,732	Chien	3,756	82,201
#8,734	Gilkey	3,755	82,223
#8,736	Trevizo	3,754	82,244
#8,741	Bitner	3,753	82,266
#8,743	Seabolt	3,752	82,288

Who is named Berk

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

92% of people named Berk identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
Two or more races 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Berks

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Bobby Berk
American interior designer and reality television personality, born 1982
Dick Berk
American drummer (1939–2014)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Berk

Berk has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

Questions

Where does the surname Berk come from?: * As a Dutch, Czech, and Polish surname, from a Germanic personal name stemming from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Also see Bernhard. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from the word for birch tree, from Proto-West Germanic *berku. * As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Berg.
How common is the surname Berk?: 3,754 people in the United States had the surname Berk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,244 Americans. It ranked 8,736th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Berk?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Berk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Berk?: Bobby Berk, American interior designer and reality television personality, followed by Dick Berk.
Where is the surname Berk most common?: Wikidata records people named Berk in the United States.
Is the surname Berk getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,771 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,754 in 2010, down 0.5%.