The FALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,209	7301	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	1,195	4694	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+3014	-2607	0	-8
Other Countries
Australia	131	11201	0.001	8
United Kingdom	798	6269	0.002	17

Top States for FALL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	381	3251	0.004	38
California	380	7460	0.001	11
Ohio	372	3909	0.003	33
New York	351	5786	0.002	18
Massachusetts	160	5375	0.003	25
Top States for FALL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	41	1549	0.008	83
New Hampshire	88	2265	0.007	71
Maine	54	3628	0.004	42
Michigan	381	3251	0.004	38
Ohio	372	3909	0.003	33

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

Classification and Origin of FALL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	700	16.63
Mixed Race	121	2.87
Native American/Alaskan	103	2.45
White (Hispanic)	58	1.38
Asian/Pacific	21	0.5
White (Caucasian)	3,206	76.17

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

Similar names to FALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FALL.

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.