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The BORN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,385 5042 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,647 3527 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +4738 -1515 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 173 8587 0.001 11
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BORN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 500 1054 0.010 102
Ohio 481 2832 0.004 42
Illinois 480 2608 0.004 39
California 476 5803 0.001 14
Florida 397 4935 0.002 25
Top States for BORN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 500 1054 0.010 102
Wisconsin 328 2056 0.006 61
Kansas 156 1969 0.006 58
Wyoming 24 2641 0.005 49
Ohio 481 2832 0.004 42

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

Classification and Origin of BORN

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 BORN 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 BORN 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 BORN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 79 1.24
Asian/Pacific 64 1
White (Hispanic) 61 0.96
Mixed Race 60 0.94
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.23
White (Caucasian) 6,106 95.63

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

Meaning of BORN in historical publications

BORN. The same as Bourn.

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 BORN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BORN.

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 BORN

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