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    The surname Dirks

    A surname, carried by 4,534 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D620

    Dirks: #7,350 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Dirks #7,350, 4,534 people Dirks: #7,350 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dirks #7,350, 4,534 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dirks is more common than 95.5% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,534 people named Dirks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 68,096 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,374.

    #7,350
    rank among US surnames
    4,534
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #7,053)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,345Gendron4,53768,051
    #7,347Haygood4,53668,066
    #7,348Liggett4,53568,081
    #7,350Dirks4,53468,096

    Who is named Dirks

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

    92% of people named Dirks identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.3%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Dirkss

    2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Rudolph Dirks
      American cartoonist (1877–1968)
    • Samantha Dirks
      Belizean sprinter, born 1992

    Notable Dirkss come mostly from the United States (1) and Belize (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dirks

    Dirks has the Soundex code D620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Dirks?
    4,534 people in the United States had the surname Dirks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 68,096 Americans. It ranked 7,350th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dirks?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Dirks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Dirks?
    Rudolph Dirks, American cartoonist (1877–1968), followed by Samantha Dirks.
    Where is the surname Dirks most common?
    Wikidata records people named Dirks in the United States and Belize.
    Is the surname Dirks getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,374 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,534 in 2010, up 3.7%.