Starke

At the 2020 census, 2,996 Americans bore the surname Starke — 10,235th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 99,800.

By the numbers

People: 2,996
Rank: 10,235th
How common: 1 in 99,800
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Starke

Tom Starke (born 1981)German association football player
Pauline Starke (1901–1977)American actress
Manfred Starke (born 1991)Namibian footballer
Anthony Starke (born 1963)American actor
Ute Starke (born 1939)East German gymnast

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

Surnames like Starke

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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.