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    The surname Yanke

    A surname, carried by 1,156 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex Y520

    Yanke: #22,301 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yanke #22,301, 1,156 people Yanke: #22,301 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yanke #22,301, 1,156 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yanke is more common than 86.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,156 people named Yanke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 267,081 Americans. That is up 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,073.

    #22,301
    rank among US surnames
    1,156
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.7%
    change since 2000 (was #22,384)

    Who is named Yanke

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

    95% of people named Yanke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    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

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    Surnames that sound like Yanke

    Yanke has the Soundex code Y520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Yanke?
    1,156 people in the United States had the surname Yanke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 267,081 Americans. It ranked 22,301st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yanke?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Yanke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Yanke getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,073 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,156 in 2010, up 7.7%.