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    The surname Calk

    A German place surname, carried by 610 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C420

    Calk: #36,630 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Calk #36,630, 610 people Calk: #36,630 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Calk #36,630, 610 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Calk is more common than 77.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Possibly a habitational surname from Calke in Derbyshire, or alternatively an Americanized spelling of German Kalk.

    Calk is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 610 people named Calk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 506,140 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 606.

    #36,630
    rank among US surnames
    610
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #35,187)

    Who is named Calk

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

    90% of people named Calk identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Calk

    Calk has the Soundex code C420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C420.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Calk come from?
    Possibly a habitational surname from Calke in Derbyshire, or alternatively an Americanized spelling of German Kalk.
    How common is the surname Calk?
    610 people in the United States had the surname Calk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 506,140 Americans. It ranked 36,630th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Calk?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Calk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Calk?
    Calk is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Calk getting more or less common?
    More common. 606 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 610 in 2010, up 0.7%.