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The AGENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 684 31884 0 2
United States (1880 census) 86 34743 0 2
Change since 1880 +598 +2859 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 7 112479 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for AGENT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 132 5611 0.005 46
Oklahoma 73 13445 0.002 21
Louisiana 69 15603 0.002 15
Tennessee 69 15409 0.001 12
Indiana 52 29490 0.001 9
Top States for AGENT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 132 5611 0.005 46
Oklahoma 73 13445 0.002 21
Delaware 14 23100 0.002 18
Louisiana 69 15603 0.002 15
Tennessee 69 15409 0.001 12

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called AGENT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called AGENT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called AGENT in Mississippi than any other state, but you are more likely to find a AGENT by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of AGENT

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the AGENT surname.

Ethnic distribution of AGENT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 512 74.85
Black/African American 145 21.2
White (Hispanic) 10 1.46
Mixed Race 8 1.17
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the AGENT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

AGENT is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of AGENT in historical publications

AGENT. The occupation.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to AGENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AGENT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for AGENT

The following words are slight variants of AGENT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.