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The EARNSHAW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 959 24453 0 4
United States (1880 census) 248 16486 0 5
Change since 1880 +711 -7967 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 471 3394 0.003 29
United Kingdom 3,198 1955 0.007 70
Top States for EARNSHAW by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 120 19684 0.000 4
Maryland 70 8124 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 69 20684 0.001 6
Utah 57 4507 0.003 26
Texas 55 24502 0.000 3
Top States for EARNSHAW by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 19 5024 0.003 30
New Hampshire 33 5015 0.003 27
Utah 57 4507 0.003 26
Rhode Island 25 6272 0.002 24
Wyoming 7 9890 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of EARNSHAW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 912 95.1
Mixed Race 23 2.4
White (Hispanic) 16 1.67
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of EARNSHAW in historical publications

EARNSHAW. Local— from A-Sax. earn, an eagle, and sccaga, a wilderness, (Leo) grove, or shaw.

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 EARNSHAW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EARNSHAW.

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 EARNSHAW

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