How common is the surname Flink?

1,064 people in the United States had the surname Flink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. It ranked 23,768th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Flink?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Flink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Flink getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,064 in 2010, down 14%.

The surname Flink

A surname, carried by 1,064 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Flink is more common than 85.4% of them.

Origin

* Swedish surname, from the adjective flink (“quick, agile”). * As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, from the adjective flink, meaning the same as above.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,064 people named Flink in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. That is down 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,238.

#23,768

rank among US surnames

1,064

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-14.1%

change since 2000 (was #20,041)

Who is named Flink

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

95% of people named Flink identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Two or more races 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Flink

Flinchum

Flink has the Soundex code F452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F452.

Questions

Where does the surname Flink come from?: * Swedish surname, from the adjective flink (“quick, agile”). * As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, from the adjective flink, meaning the same as above.
How common is the surname Flink?: 1,064 people in the United States had the surname Flink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. It ranked 23,768th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Flink?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Flink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Flink getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,238 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,064 in 2010, down 14%.