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    The surname Kolk

    A surname, carried by 723 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K420

    Kolk: #31,906 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kolk #31,906, 723 people Kolk: #31,906 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Kolk #31,906, 723 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kolk is more common than 80.3% of them.

    Origin

    From the Dutch and German surname, from Kolk (“bog, watering hole”) (see below).

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 723 people named Kolk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 427,034 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 646.

    #31,906
    rank among US surnames
    723
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.9%
    change since 2000 (was #33,333)

    Who is named Kolk

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

    95% of people named Kolk identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kolk

    Kolk has the Soundex code K420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kolk come from?
    From the Dutch and German surname, from Kolk (“bog, watering hole”) (see below).
    How common is the surname Kolk?
    723 people in the United States had the surname Kolk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 427,034 Americans. It ranked 31,906th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kolk?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kolk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Kolk getting more or less common?
    More common. 646 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 723 in 2010, up 12%.