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The BRISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,386 5888 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 730 7119 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +4656 +1231 +0.001 +5
Other Countries
Australia 60 22082 0 4
United Kingdom 454 9483 0.001 10
Top States for BRISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 1,097 611 0.025 245
Texas 1,067 2300 0.005 51
Mississippi 1,006 437 0.035 354
California 277 9814 0.001 8
Florida 152 12164 0.001 10
Top States for BRISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 1,006 437 0.035 354
Louisiana 1,097 611 0.025 245
Arkansas 139 2583 0.005 52
Texas 1,067 2300 0.005 51
Alaska 19 4980 0.003 30

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

Classification and Origin of BRISTER

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 BRISTER 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 BRISTER 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 BRISTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 83 1.54
Mixed Race 56 1.04
Native American/Alaskan 26 0.48
Asian/Pacific 11 0.2
White (Caucasian) 3,984 73.97
Black/African American 1,226 22.76

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

Meaning of BRISTER in historical publications

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

Similar names to BRISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRISTER.

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 BRISTER

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