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The FERN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,606 11166 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 448 10560 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2158 -606 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 188 7980 0.001 12
United Kingdom 1,499 3755 0.003 33
Top States for FERN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 244 6575 0.002 15
New York 239 6657 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 213 5839 0.002 17
California 166 12411 0.000 5
Ohio 151 7352 0.001 13
Top States for FERN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 79 1665 0.008 75
Connecticut 87 4294 0.003 26
Minnesota 123 4664 0.003 25
Hawaii 25 3654 0.002 21
Massachusetts 118 5744 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of FERN

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 FERN 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 FERN 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 FERN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 116 4.45
Asian/Pacific 61 2.34
Black/African American 39 1.5
Mixed Race 37 1.42
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.23
White (Caucasian) 2,347 90.06

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

Meaning of FERN in historical publications

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

Similar names to FERN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERN.

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 FERN

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