The surname Purkey
A surname, carried by 2,329 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex P620
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,329 people named Purkey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 132,566 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,194.
#13,142
rank among US surnames
2,329
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+6.2%
change since 2000 (was #12,858)
Who is named Purkey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Purkey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Purkey has the Soundex code P620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P620.
Questions
- How common is the surname Purkey?
- 2,329 people in the United States had the surname Purkey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 132,566 Americans. It ranked 13,142nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Purkey?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Purkey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Purkey getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,194 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,329 in 2010, up 6.2%.