Last Name DYKES

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of the dike or dikes, i.e. banks, trenches.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Zimbabwean

Rank	2,391 (2000 US census)	2,116 (1990 US census)

Count	13,891 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

82.45%, or 11453 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
14.1%, or 1959 total occurrences, as black,
0.27%, or 38 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.45%, or 63 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.22%, or 169 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.51%, or 210 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Ukrainian middle names

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...