The BACKUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,822	4749	0.003	25
United States (1880 census)	2,163	2788	0.004	43
Change since 1880	+4659	-1961	-0.001	-18
Other Countries
Australia	38	31865	0	2
United Kingdom	90	24488	0	2

Top States for BACKUS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	979	1912	0.005	52
Michigan	490	2380	0.005	49
Ohio	475	2999	0.004	42
Texas	367	5575	0.002	18
Florida	347	5779	0.002	22
Top States for BACKUS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	173	1519	0.010	96
Delaware	71	2013	0.009	91
Vermont	44	2387	0.007	72
Utah	150	2009	0.007	67
Wisconsin	337	2088	0.006	63

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BACKUS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BACKUS 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 BACKUS 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 BACKUS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	549	8.05
Mixed Race	117	1.72
White (Hispanic)	95	1.39
Asian/Pacific	33	0.48
Native American/Alaskan	32	0.47
White (Caucasian)	5,996	87.89

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

Similar names to BACKUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BACKUS.

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.