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The FOOTMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,017 23346 0 4
United States (1880 census) 228 17502 0 5
Change since 1880 +789 -5844 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 25 43587 0 2
United Kingdom 233 15019 0.001 5
Top States for FOOTMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 287 8729 0.002 18
South Carolina 168 3958 0.004 42
New York 97 24911 0.001 5
Indiana 62 14142 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 59 31064 0.000 5
Top States for FOOTMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 168 3958 0.004 42
Maine 42 5272 0.003 33
Washington DC 14 5184 0.002 24
Florida 287 8729 0.002 18
Delaware 12 13545 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of FOOTMAN

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 FOOTMAN 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 FOOTMAN 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 FOOTMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 894 87.91
White (Caucasian) 88 8.65
Mixed Race 21 2.06
White (Hispanic) 12 1.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FOOTMAN in historical publications

FOOTMAN. Not a domestic servant, but a foot-soldier, an infantry man. It is used in this sense in Hall's Clironicle.

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 FOOTMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOOTMAN.

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 FOOTMAN

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