Plank

At the 2020 census, 6,253 Americans bore the surname Plank — 5,383rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,253
Rank: 5,383rd
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Plank

Bettina Plank (born 1992)Austrian karateka
Conny Plank (1940–1987)German record producer and musician
Herbert Plank (born 1954)Italian alpine skier
Scott Plank (1958–2002)American actor

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

Surnames like Plank

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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.