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    The surname Crank

    A surname, carried by 4,204 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C652

    Crank: #7,873 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Crank #7,873, 4,204 people Crank: #7,873 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Crank #7,873, 4,204 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Crank is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,204 people named Crank in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,441 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,917.

    #7,873
    rank among US surnames
    4,204
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #7,839)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,866Plourde4,20873,371
    #7,868McCourt4,20673,406
    #7,870Shoemake4,20573,423
    #7,873Crank4,20473,441
    #7,874Pendley4,20373,458
    #7,875Horgan4,20273,476
    #7,876Pasillas4,20173,493

    Who is named Crank

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

    75% of people named Crank identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 8.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 8.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Crank

    Crank has the Soundex code C652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C652.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Crank?
    4,204 people in the United States had the surname Crank in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,441 Americans. It ranked 7,873rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Crank?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Crank identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Crank getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,917 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,204 in 2010, up 7.3%.