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The FOLGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,196 12845 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 1,033 5312 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +1163 -7533 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 4 180374 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FOLGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 189 13219 0.001 6
New York 159 11984 0.001 8
Massachusetts 156 5338 0.002 25
Ohio 136 9766 0.001 12
Florida 123 14241 0.001 8
Top States for FOLGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 63 3187 0.005 49
Washington DC 15 3712 0.003 26
Massachusetts 156 5338 0.002 25
Alaska 13 7789 0.002 21
Vermont 12 7178 0.002 20

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

Classification and Origin of FOLGER

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

Ethnic distribution of FOLGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 50 2.28
White (Hispanic) 43 1.96
Black/African American 27 1.23
Mixed Race 18 0.82
Asian/Pacific 7 0.32
White (Caucasian) 2,051 93.4

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

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

Meaning of FOLGER in historical publications

FOLGER. See Foulger.

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 FOLGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOLGER.

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 FOLGER

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