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The FIREMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 291 64008 0 1
United States (1880 census) 24 68680 0 0
Change since 1880 +267 +4672 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FIREMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 35 49896 0.000 1
Massachusetts 33 18759 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 27 41018 0.000 2
Illinois 26 40377 0.000 2
Florida 25 47624 0.000 2
Top States for FIREMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 33 18759 0.001 5
Arizona 15 28459 0.000 3
New Jersey 23 34715 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 27 41018 0.000 2
Illinois 26 40377 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of FIREMAN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FIREMAN surname.

Ethnic distribution of FIREMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 286 98.28
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

FIREMAN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of FIREMAN in historical publications

FIREMAN. The occupation.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FIREMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIREMAN.

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 FIREMAN

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