Wilke

At the 2020 census, 7,330 Americans bore the surname Wilke — 4,693rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,800.

By the numbers

People: 7,330
Rank: 4,693rd
How common: 1 in 40,800
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Variant of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Wilke

Birthe Wilke (born 1936)Danish singer
Kristof Wilke (born 1985)German rower
Marina Wilke (born 1958)East German coxswain
Robert J. Wilke (1914–1989)American actor

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

Surnames like Wilke

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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.