How common is the surname Ptak?

1,759 people in the United States had the surname Ptak in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,523 Americans. It ranked 16,370th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ptak?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Ptak identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ptak getting more or less common?

More common. 1,736 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,759 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Ptak

A surname, carried by 1,759 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex P320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ptak is more common than 89.9% of them.

Origin

From Polish Ptak and Czech Pták.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,759 people named Ptak in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 175,523 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,736.

#16,370

rank among US surnames

1,759

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #15,485)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,362	Bachand	1,760	175,424
#16,370	Yutzy	1,759	175,523
#16,376	Kroger	1,758	175,623

Who is named Ptak

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

97% of people named Ptak identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

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 Ptak

Pathak

Ptak has the Soundex code P320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P320.

Questions

Where does the surname Ptak come from?: From Polish Ptak and Czech Pták.
How common is the surname Ptak?: 1,759 people in the United States had the surname Ptak in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 175,523 Americans. It ranked 16,370th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ptak?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Ptak identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ptak getting more or less common?: More common. 1,736 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,759 in 2010, up 1.3%.