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    The surname Linker

    A surname, carried by 2,927 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L526

    Linker: #10,889 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Linker #10,889, 2,927 people Linker: #10,889 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Linker #10,889, 2,927 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Linker is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,927 people named Linker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 105,482 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,704.

    #10,889
    rank among US surnames
    2,927
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.2%
    change since 2000 (was #10,821)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,880Midgett2,930105,374
    #10,882Marciano2,929105,410
    #10,886Nova2,928105,446
    #10,889Linker2,927105,482
    #10,890Divine2,926105,518
    #10,891Lesley2,925105,554
    #10,894Jelinek2,924105,590

    Who is named Linker

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

    94% of people named Linker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Linker

    Linker has the Soundex code L526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L526.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Linker?
    2,927 people in the United States had the surname Linker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 105,482 Americans. It ranked 10,889th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Linker?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Linker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Linker getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,704 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,927 in 2010, up 8.2%.