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The ANGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,039 13648 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 396 11593 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1643 -2055 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 117 12371 0.001 7
United Kingdom 151 19375 0 3
Top States for ANGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 354 3414 0.004 36
California 164 15082 0.000 5
New York 161 11954 0.001 8
Wisconsin 133 6349 0.002 25
Florida 131 13571 0.001 8
Top States for ANGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 26 3736 0.004 43
Michigan 354 3414 0.004 36
Wisconsin 133 6349 0.002 25
New Hampshire 29 5471 0.002 23
Alaska 11 9358 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of ANGER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ANGER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ANGER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ANGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 60 2.94
White (Hispanic) 40 1.96
Mixed Race 22 1.08
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.39
Asian/Pacific 5 0.25
White (Caucasian) 1,904 93.38

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

Meaning of ANGER in historical publications

ANGER. Perhaps from one who personated tliis vice in some miracle play ; more probably, however, from hanger, a word descriptive of localitj-, A hanger is a wooded declivity.

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 ANGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ANGER.

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 ANGER

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