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    The surname Hoke

    A surname, carried by 9,096 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H200

    Hoke: #3,901 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hoke #3,901, 9,096 people Hoke: #3,901 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hoke #3,901, 9,096 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hoke is more common than 97.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 9,096 people named Hoke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,943 Americans. That is up 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,531.

    #3,901
    rank among US surnames
    9,096
    people in 2010
    3.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.6%
    change since 2000 (was #3,819)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,893Cordell9,11933,857
    #3,894Gingerich9,11733,865
    #3,895Forster9,11633,869
    #3,896Olivera9,10833,898
    #3,897Melgar9,10633,906
    #3,898Knudsen9,10433,913
    #3,899Slocum9,10233,921

    Who is named Hoke

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

    89% of people named Hoke identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 89%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    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 Hoke

    Hoke has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hoke?
    9,096 people in the United States had the surname Hoke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,943 Americans. It ranked 3,901st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hoke?
    In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Hoke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hoke getting more or less common?
    More common. 8,531 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,096 in 2010, up 6.6%.