The surname Noakes
An English surname, carried by 1,633 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex N220
Origin
English origin
From Middle English atten oaks (“at the oak trees”).
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,633 people named Noakes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,066 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,558.
Who is named Noakes
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Noakes identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Noakes
Noakes has the Soundex code N220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N220.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Noakes come from?
- From Middle English atten oaks (“at the oak trees”).
- How common is the surname Noakes?
- 1,633 people in the United States had the surname Noakes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,066 Americans. It ranked 17,322nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Noakes?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Noakes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Noakes getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,558 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,633 in 2010, up 4.8%.