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The FOOTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 16,093 2063 0.006 60
United States (1880 census) 4,691 1333 0.009 94
Change since 1880 +11402 -730 -0.003 -34
Other Countries
Australia 1,097 1513 0.007 67
United Kingdom 2,075 2870 0.005 45
Top States for FOOTE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,350 1376 0.007 71
California 1,328 2427 0.004 39
Michigan 931 1170 0.009 94
Florida 818 2577 0.005 51
Texas 725 3220 0.003 35
Top States for FOOTE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 324 574 0.026 262
Utah 350 881 0.016 157
Vermont 87 1276 0.014 143
Wyoming 69 813 0.014 140
Montana 105 1037 0.012 116

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

Classification and Origin of FOOTE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 296 1.84
White (Hispanic) 266 1.65
Mixed Race 253 1.57
Asian/Pacific 71 0.44
White (Caucasian) 13,383 83.16
Black/African American 1,825 11.34

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

Meaning of FOOTE in historical publications

(origin: Local) A place at the bottom of a hill or mountain, the base.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


FOOT. FOOTE. Probably from residence near the ' foot' of a mountain. This surname was hereditary from the time of the Conqueror. Among the undertenants of Domesday we have an Ei'uui Fot in Clieshire, and a Godwin Fot in Kent. The descendants of the latter gave the prefix to Foot's Cray. Fot is the common spelling in H.R.

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 FOOTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOOTE.

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 FOOTE

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