Wilkes is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Wilkes
No. of characters: 6
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Wilkes

How popular is Wilkes?

Wilkes is common in United States.

Wilkes is ranked 13090 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Wilkes bearers increased by 2.904984 per cent in 2010 US census to 18314 since 2000, the surname slipped by 119 spots and ranked at 1975. The last name was found in around 62 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 69.32 71.2
Black 25.46 25.04
Hispanic or Latino 2.23 1.3
Others 2.04 1.53
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.58 0.61
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.36 0.31
Wilkes is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Saint Kitts and Nevis is ahead in terms of density. Around 40387 people have been found who wears Wilkes as their family name. Wilkes is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
615,517 Russia6
103,755 Czech Republic5
108,034 Italy3
5,726 Puerto Rico2
1,313 United States Virgin Islands2
95,312 Argentina2
44,018 Poland2
4,086 Angola2
54,135 Philippines2
993 Guernsey2
18,035 Egypt2
24,269 Peru2
18,625 Japan2
18,718 Thailand2
1,500,361 India2
26,532 Chile2
144,523 Kazakhstan2
11,831 Tajikistan1
5,553 Taiwan1
7,847 Albania1
7,191 Afghanistan1
13,447 Uganda1
12,741 Ecuador1
29,774 Venezuela1
7,292 Vietnam1
9,116 Nicaragua1
810,193 Indonesia1
15,162 Costa Rica1
24,460 Armenia1
53,505 Turkey1
5,589 Sudan1
20,172 Hungary1
3,586 Honduras1
2,190 Barbados1
7,941 Guatemala1
17,236 Ghana1
10,958 Bangladesh1
3,350 Fiji1
11,486 Estonia1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
10,683 Cyprus1
2,505 Congo1
14,373 Jordan1
28,365 Kenya1
17,575 Kuwait1
11,923 Slovenia1
6,212 Jamaica1
24,176 Qatar1
21,562 Portugal1
4,942 Libya1
17,768 Pakistan1
47,891 Norway1
8,430 Northern Ireland1
6,688 Malawi1
12,745 Luxembourg1
1,819 Laos1
16,228 Bulgaria1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
3,004 Bahrain49
23,537 Switzerland45
36,533 Zimbabwe32
43,662 Belgium30
11,685 Singapore24
42,407 Sweden22
29,040 Denmark15
3,922 China11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
1,926 Trinidad and Tobago90
92,589 Brazil79
149 Saint Kitts and Nevis60
371 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines52
Countries with hundreds of Wilkes:
8,609 South Africa749
612 Wales598
1,369 Scotland551
1,628 New Zealand462
10,846 Mexico419
7,046 Netherlands394
53,810 France184
13,194 Malaysia126
9,004 United Arab Emirates107
25,817 Spain104
3,646 Ireland104
Countries with thousands of Wilkes:
776 England9,341
1,405 Australia2,267
3,073 Canada1,542
7,506 Germany1,278
Countries with ten thousands of Wilkes:
1,847 United States21,570
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 25 years old mechanic John Wilkes who was residing in Great Britain migrated to USA on January 4, 1849 by Arrick put out from Liverpool. 21 years old Sarah Wilkes, 2 years old James Wilkes, Mary Wilkes, aged Born at sea, 27 years old William Wilkes, Mary Wilkes, aged 23, George Wilkes, aged 20, Zachariah Wilkes, aged 63, 38 years old Hannah Wilkes, and 2 other Wilkes around 50% of whom were farmer migrated to US.

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Teena Irons
wilkes is a rare surname, represents the Flemish s form with the strong genitive marking the descent of willic Germanic name, that is to say the son of willic, will drift of meaning will.

Wilkes Namesakes

  • Oren Wilkes, Model
  • Rodney Wilkes, Olympic athlete
  • Ian Wilkes, Horse trainer
  • Arnett Wilkes, Author
  • Floyd Attie Wilkes, Mathematician
  • John Wilkes Booth, Actor
  • John Wilkes Booth, Actor
  • John Wilkes, Journalist
  • Maurice Wilkes, Computer scientist
  • Leon Wilkeson, Bassist
  • In 2009, Andrew Wilkes played the role of Phunky Pharaoh in animation and comedy movie Sword of Digestive Calmness.

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