The ELLISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	41,459	756	0.015	154
United States (1880 census)	7,560	792	0.015	151
Change since 1880	+33899	+36	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	1,157	1423	0.007	71
United Kingdom	7,608	807	0.017	166

Top States for ELLISON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,725	714	0.018	179
California	2,689	1278	0.008	79
Florida	2,466	845	0.015	154
Georgia	2,420	433	0.030	296
Tennessee	2,178	411	0.038	383
Top States for ELLISON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,837	329	0.046	458
West Virginia	791	332	0.044	437
Alabama	1,901	377	0.043	427
Tennessee	2,178	411	0.038	383
Georgia	2,420	433	0.030	296

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of ELLISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	638	1.54
White (Hispanic)	580	1.4
Native American/Alaskan	265	0.64
Asian/Pacific	166	0.4
White (Caucasian)	28,362	68.41
Black/African American	11,447	27.61

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

Similar names to ELLISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELLISON.

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.