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The ELMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,331 12248 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 573 8663 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1758 -3585 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 652 2485 0.004 40
United Kingdom 1,721 3340 0.004 37
Top States for ELMS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 374 5697 0.002 18
California 282 9879 0.001 8
Arkansas 114 3136 0.004 43
Illinois 103 13626 0.001 8
Arizona 89 6865 0.002 17
Top States for ELMS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 114 3136 0.004 43
Oklahoma 69 6331 0.002 20
Texas 374 5697 0.002 18
Arizona 89 6865 0.002 17
Nevada 31 7862 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of ELMS

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 ELMS 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 ELMS 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 ELMS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 150 6.44
Mixed Race 39 1.67
White (Hispanic) 39 1.67
Asian/Pacific 27 1.16
Native American/Alaskan 26 1.12
White (Caucasian) 2,050 87.95

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

Meaning of ELMS in historical publications

ELiSIES. ELMS. This surname is congenerous with Ash, Cakes, &c,, and there are many localities so designated in England,

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 ELMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELMS.

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 ELMS

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