The FIFE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,574	4910	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	1,844	3203	0.004	37
Change since 1880	+4730	-1707	-0.002	-13
Other Countries
Australia	193	7793	0.001	12
United Kingdom	450	9550	0.001	10

Top States for FIFE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	668	4499	0.002	20
Ohio	562	2552	0.005	50
Texas	432	4985	0.002	21
Utah	378	823	0.017	169
Louisiana	341	1891	0.008	76
Top States for FIFE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	378	823	0.017	169
Idaho	191	909	0.015	148
Louisiana	341	1891	0.008	76
New Hampshire	79	2458	0.006	64
Wyoming	25	2674	0.005	51

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

Classification and Origin of FIFE

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 FIFE 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 FIFE 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 FIFE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	428	6.51
White (Hispanic)	105	1.6
Mixed Race	73	1.11
Native American/Alaskan	71	1.08
Asian/Pacific	42	0.64
White (Caucasian)	5,855	89.06

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

Similar names to FIFE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIFE.

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.