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The BIGELOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,354 2910 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 3,890 1574 0.008 78
Change since 1880 +7464 -1336 -0.004 -36
Other Countries
Australia 89 15726 0.001 5
United Kingdom 20 28569 0 0
Top States for BIGELOW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 1,294 786 0.013 130
California 921 3274 0.003 27
New York 691 2730 0.004 36
Massachusetts 668 1327 0.011 105
Florida 587 3446 0.004 37
Top States for BIGELOW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 164 565 0.027 269
Utah 315 929 0.014 141
Michigan 1,294 786 0.013 130
Massachusetts 668 1327 0.011 105
Maine 116 1936 0.009 91

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

Classification and Origin of BIGELOW

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 BIGELOW 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 BIGELOW 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 BIGELOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 857 7.55
Mixed Race 169 1.49
White (Hispanic) 141 1.24
Asian/Pacific 78 0.69
Native American/Alaskan 57 0.5
White (Caucasian) 10,052 88.53

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

Meaning of BIGELOW in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BIGELOW.

Similar names to BIGELOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIGELOW.

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 BIGELOW

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