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The BLUE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,422 1461 0.008 83
United States (1880 census) 5,128 1192 0.01 103
Change since 1880 +17294 -269 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 261 5903 0.002 16
United Kingdom 483 9064 0.001 11
Top States for BLUE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,476 482 0.031 308
California 1,695 1989 0.005 50
Florida 1,658 1306 0.010 104
Texas 1,361 1864 0.007 65
Ohio 1,114 1256 0.010 98
Top States for BLUE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,476 482 0.031 308
South Dakota 142 538 0.019 188
Mississippi 424 1089 0.015 149
Washington DC 81 843 0.014 142
South Carolina 554 1263 0.014 138

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

Classification and Origin of BLUE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 724 3.23
Mixed Race 484 2.16
White (Hispanic) 289 1.29
Asian/Pacific 135 0.6
Black/African American 10,045 44.8
White (Caucasian) 10,742 47.91

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

Meaning of BLUE in historical publications

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

Similar names to BLUE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLUE.

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 BLUE

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