How common is the surname Volk?

9,126 people in the United States had the surname Volk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,831 Americans. It ranked 3,888th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Volk?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Volk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Volk getting more or less common?

More common. 8,628 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,126 in 2010, up 5.8%.

The surname Volk

A surname, carried by 9,126 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex V420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Volk is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,126 people named Volk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,831 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,628.

#3,888

rank among US surnames

9,126

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+5.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,772)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,879	McClintock	9,141	33,776
#3,880	Worden	9,139	33,783
#3,881	Dube	9,136	33,794
#3,882	Zink	9,134	33,802
#3,884	Schiller	9,132	33,809
#3,885	Jerome	9,131	33,813
#3,886	Rickard	9,128	33,824

Who is named Volk

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

95% of people named Volk identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Volk

Volz

Volk has the Soundex code V420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V420.

Questions

How common is the surname Volk?: 9,126 people in the United States had the surname Volk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,831 Americans. It ranked 3,888th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Volk?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Volk identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Volk getting more or less common?: More common. 8,628 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,126 in 2010, up 5.8%.