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    The surname Trnka

    A Czech place surname, carried by 550 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex T652

    Trnka: #39,887 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Trnka #39,887, 550 people Trnka: #39,887 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Trnka #39,887, 550 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Trnka is more common than 75.4% of them.

    Origin

    Czech origin

    Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Trnka, a topographic surname from trnka (“blackthorn”).

    Trnka is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 550 people named Trnka in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 561,356 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 515.

    #39,887
    rank among US surnames
    550
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.8%
    change since 2000 (was #40,083)

    Who is named Trnka

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

    94% of people named Trnka identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Trnka

    Trnka has the Soundex code T652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T652.

    Other Czech surnames

    All 96 Czech surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Trnka come from?
    Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Trnka, a topographic surname from trnka (“blackthorn”).
    How common is the surname Trnka?
    550 people in the United States had the surname Trnka in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 561,356 Americans. It ranked 39,887th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Trnka?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Trnka identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Trnka?
    Trnka is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Trnka getting more or less common?
    More common. 515 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 550 in 2010, up 6.8%.