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The BAINES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,702 5586 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 669 7633 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +5033 +2047 +0.001 +8
Other Countries
Australia 885 1854 0.005 54
United Kingdom 8,468 719 0.018 184
Top States for BAINES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 564 4181 0.003 27
North Carolina 504 2414 0.006 63
Virginia 455 2176 0.006 64
Tennessee 444 2074 0.008 78
California 325 8864 0.001 10
Top States for BAINES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 70 2155 0.009 89
Tennessee 444 2074 0.008 78
Alaska 45 2039 0.007 72
Virginia 455 2176 0.006 64
North Carolina 504 2414 0.006 63

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

Classification and Origin of BAINES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 101 1.77
White (Hispanic) 76 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 52 0.91
Asian/Pacific 32 0.56
Black/African American 2,646 46.4
White (Caucasian) 2,795 49.02

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

Meaning of BAINES in historical publications

BAINES. BAYNES. A village near Bayeux, in Normandy, probably so called from Fr. hain, a bath.

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 BAINES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAINES.

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 BAINES

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