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The CANARY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,051 22783 0 4
United States (1880 census) 474 10093 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +577 -12690 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 1 285501 0 0
United Kingdom 19 28633 0 0
Top States for CANARY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 151 4838 0.002 25
Kentucky 124 3628 0.003 31
New York 89 19652 0.000 5
Florida 79 19883 0.000 5
Oklahoma 77 5238 0.002 22
Top States for CANARY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 124 3628 0.003 31
Indiana 151 4838 0.002 25
Oklahoma 77 5238 0.002 22
Idaho 20 8389 0.002 15
Vermont 5 12734 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of CANARY

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 CANARY 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 CANARY 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 CANARY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 24 2.28
White (Hispanic) 8 0.76
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.57
Asian/Pacific 5 0.48
Mixed Race 5 0.48
White (Caucasian) 1,003 95.43

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

Meaning of CANARY in historical publications

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

Similar names to CANARY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANARY.

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 CANARY

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