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The FIRMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,219 20298 0 4
United States (1880 census) 539 9100 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +680 -11198 +N/A -7
Other Countries
Australia 208 7297 0.001 13
United Kingdom 905 5695 0.002 20
Top States for FIRMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 190 6670 0.002 19
California 124 19515 0.000 4
Ohio 103 13012 0.001 9
Virginia 79 8935 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 72 20374 0.001 6
Top States for FIRMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 190 6670 0.002 19
Montana 17 8852 0.002 19
New Hampshire 16 9943 0.001 13
Washington 72 10311 0.001 12
Virginia 79 8935 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of FIRMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 44 3.61
Black/African American 43 3.53
Mixed Race 33 2.71
Asian/Pacific 21 1.72
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.66
White (Caucasian) 1,070 87.78

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

Meaning of FIRMAN in historical publications

FIRMAN. Either fireman, ov ferd-mon, A-Sax., a soldier.

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 FIRMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIRMAN.

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 FIRMAN

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