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The FALLS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,615 4313 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 1,802 3283 0.004 36
Change since 1880 +5813 -1030 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 226 6760 0.001 14
United Kingdom 352 11446 0.001 8
Top States for FALLS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 805 1578 0.010 100
Virginia 728 1333 0.010 103
Texas 494 4523 0.002 24
California 440 6596 0.001 13
South Carolina 345 1943 0.009 86
Top States for FALLS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 728 1333 0.010 103
North Carolina 805 1578 0.010 100
South Carolina 345 1943 0.009 86
Alabama 337 2114 0.008 76
Arkansas 164 2274 0.006 61

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

Classification and Origin of FALLS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 117 1.54
White (Hispanic) 101 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.47
Asian/Pacific 27 0.35
White (Caucasian) 5,675 74.52
Black/African American 1,659 21.79

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

Meaning of FALLS in historical publications

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

Similar names to FALLS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FALLS.

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 FALLS

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