Berk

Berk is the 9,270th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,370 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 88,700.

By the numbers

People: 3,370
Rank: 9,270th
How common: 1 in 88,700
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

As a Dutch, Czech, and Polish surname, from a Germanic personal name stemming from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Also see Bernhard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Berk described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Berk

İlhan Berk (1918–2008)Turkish poet and writer

People named Berk with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Berk

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.