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    The surname Frink

    A surname, carried by 3,888 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F652

    Frink: #8,482 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Frink #8,482, 3,888 people Frink: #8,482 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Frink #8,482, 3,888 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Frink is more common than 94.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,888 people named Frink in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,410 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,754.

    #8,482
    rank among US surnames
    3,888
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #8,134)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,478Matute3,89279,328
    #8,479Cann3,89079,369
    #8,481Horta3,88979,389
    #8,482Frink3,88879,410

    Who is named Frink

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

    71% of people named Frink identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 71%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 23%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    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 Frink

    Frink has the Soundex code F652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F652.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Frink?
    3,888 people in the United States had the surname Frink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,410 Americans. It ranked 8,482nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Frink?
    In the 2010 Census, 71% of people named Frink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Frink getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,754 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,888 in 2010, up 3.6%.