How common is the surname Danek?

1,018 people in the United States had the surname Danek in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. It ranked 24,554th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Danek?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Danek identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Danek getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,021 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,018 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Danek

A surname, carried by 1,018 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Danek is more common than 84.9% of them.

Origin

From Czech Daněk or Polish Danek.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,018 people named Danek in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,021.

#24,554

rank among US surnames

1,018

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #23,283)

Who is named Danek

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

94% of people named Danek identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Danek

Danek has the Soundex code D520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D520.

Questions

Where does the surname Danek come from?: From Czech Daněk or Polish Danek.
How common is the surname Danek?: 1,018 people in the United States had the surname Danek in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,286 Americans. It ranked 24,554th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Danek?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Danek identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Danek getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,021 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,018 in 2010, down 0.3%.