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The FIELDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 103,242 264 0.038 383
United States (1880 census) 20,140 256 0.04 403
Change since 1880 +83102 -8 -0.002 -20
Other Countries
Australia 426 3714 0.003 26
United Kingdom 2,281 2640 0.005 50
Top States for FIELDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 7,582 339 0.036 364
California 6,300 522 0.019 186
Florida 5,739 317 0.036 359
Ohio 5,607 205 0.049 494
Kentucky 5,210 73 0.129 1,289
Top States for FIELDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 5,210 73 0.129 1,289
West Virginia 1,566 129 0.087 866
South Carolina 3,111 178 0.078 775
Indiana 4,697 107 0.077 772
Tennessee 4,359 186 0.077 766

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

Classification and Origin of FIELDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 341 0.33
White (Caucasian) 61,677 59.74
Black/African American 36,341 35.2
Mixed Race 2,065 2
Native American/Alaskan 1,280 1.24
White (Hispanic) 1,538 1.49

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

Meaning of FIELDS in historical publications

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

Similar names to FIELDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIELDS.

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 FIELDS

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