The BIGGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,298	12393	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	1,012	5403	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+1286	-6990	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	24	45835	0	1
United Kingdom	156	18962	0	3

Top States for BIGGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	322	4168	0.003	32
Illinois	178	8237	0.001	14
Pennsylvania	131	12534	0.001	11
California	125	20903	0.000	4
South Carolina	119	4481	0.003	30
Top States for BIGGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	322	4168	0.003	32
South Carolina	119	4481	0.003	30
Oklahoma	61	7310	0.002	18
Indiana	103	7937	0.002	17
Virginia	109	7333	0.002	15

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

Classification and Origin of BIGGER

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 BIGGER 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 BIGGER 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 BIGGER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	181	7.88
Mixed Race	40	1.74
Native American/Alaskan	39	1.7
White (Hispanic)	36	1.57
Asian/Pacific	14	0.61
White (Caucasian)	1,988	86.51

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

Similar names to BIGGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BIGGER.

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.