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    The surname Danko

    A Slovak surname, carried by 4,237 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D520

    Danko: #7,815 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Danko #7,815, 4,237 people Danko: #7,815 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Danko #7,815, 4,237 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Danko is more common than 95.2% of them.

    Origin

    Slovak origin

    Borrowed from Slovak Danko.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,237 people named Danko in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 72,869 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,422.

    #7,815
    rank among US surnames
    4,237
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +23.8%
    change since 2000 (was #8,815)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,807Thies4,24072,817
    #7,810Shope4,23972,835
    #7,812Whitacre4,23872,852
    #7,815Danko4,23772,869
    #7,816Huertas4,23572,903
    #7,819Shouse4,23472,921
    #7,821Powe4,23372,938

    Who is named Danko

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

    87% of people named Danko identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

    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 Danko

    Danko 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 Danko come from?
    Borrowed from Slovak Danko.
    How common is the surname Danko?
    4,237 people in the United States had the surname Danko in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 72,869 Americans. It ranked 7,815th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Danko?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Danko identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Danko getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,422 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,237 in 2010, up 24%.