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The GREESON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,092 9646 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 299 14300 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +2793 +4654 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 19 28848 0 0
Top States for GREESON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 651 1664 0.008 80
North Carolina 607 1992 0.008 75
Texas 280 7021 0.001 13
Indiana 176 4549 0.003 29
Florida 163 11485 0.001 10
Top States for GREESON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 651 1664 0.008 80
North Carolina 607 1992 0.008 75
Arkansas 81 3977 0.003 30
Oklahoma 103 4437 0.003 30
Indiana 176 4549 0.003 29

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

Classification and Origin of GREESON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 42 1.36
Black/African American 40 1.29
White (Hispanic) 22 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.52
Asian/Pacific 9 0.29
White (Caucasian) 2,963 95.83

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

Meaning of GREESON in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GREESON.

Similar names to GREESON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREESON.

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 GREESON

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