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The FOTHERGILL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 801 28142 0 3
United States (1880 census) 155 23155 0 3
Change since 1880 +646 -4987 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 167 8873 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,965 3000 0.004 43
Top States for FOTHERGILL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 81 17702 0.000 4
Massachusetts 67 11116 0.001 11
Ohio 57 20977 0.001 5
Washington 45 15159 0.001 8
Kentucky 42 8023 0.001 10
Top States for FOTHERGILL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 25 6188 0.002 20
Vermont 12 6627 0.002 20
Idaho 17 9884 0.001 13
Iowa 33 13122 0.001 11
Massachusetts 67 11116 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 FOTHERGILL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOTHERGILL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOTHERGILL in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOTHERGILL by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOTHERGILL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 720 89.89
Black/African American 51 6.37
Mixed Race 13 1.62
White (Hispanic) 10 1.25
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 FOTHERGILL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FOTHERGILL in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Fother, as above, and gill, a brook.

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


Similar names to FOTHERGILL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOTHERGILL.

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 FOTHERGILL

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