The BILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,445	4994	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,570	3686	0.003	31
Change since 1880	+4875	-1308	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	264	5851	0.002	16
United Kingdom	1,188	4568	0.003	26

Top States for BILL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	665	5466	0.002	20
Texas	465	5578	0.002	22
Ohio	444	4031	0.004	39
Illinois	409	4083	0.003	33
Florida	359	6985	0.002	22
Top States for BILL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	98	2450	0.008	79
Connecticut	177	3285	0.005	52
Washington	258	3715	0.004	44
Alaska	27	4391	0.004	43
Idaho	51	4658	0.004	39

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

Classification and Origin of BILL

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 BILL 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 BILL 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 BILL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	781	12.12
Native American/Alaskan	339	5.26
White (Hispanic)	278	4.31
Mixed Race	113	1.75
Asian/Pacific	84	1.3
White (Caucasian)	4,850	75.25

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

Similar names to BILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BILL.

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.