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The FLASH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 420 47485 0 2
United States (1880 census) 78 36807 0 2
Change since 1880 +342 -10678 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 304124 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FLASH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 62 26314 0.000 4
Louisiana 53 9020 0.001 12
New York 50 36280 0.000 3
Texas 49 27171 0.000 2
New Jersey 43 23277 0.001 5
Top States for FLASH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 53 9020 0.001 12
Vermont 5 16066 0.001 8
Nebraska 11 21055 0.001 6
New Jersey 43 23277 0.001 5
Florida 62 26314 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of FLASH

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

Ethnic distribution of FLASH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 276 65.71
Black/African American 130 30.95
Mixed Race 9 2.14
White (Hispanic) 5 1.19
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of FLASH in historical publications

FLASH. See under Flashnian. The Prompt. Parv. defines flasshe as ' watyr,' and under -'ff' 7(6' we have " llasche, where rayne watyr stondythe." ilr. '\'ay says, "a shallow jdooI, in low Latin flacltin, jiasca, 0. Yy. facile ov Jfesqie." Camden, in his Britannia, applies the term to those artificial reservoirs in Sussex which had been formed for the driving of ironmills.

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 FLASH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLASH.

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 FLASH

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