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The JEANS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,652 16109 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 464 10271 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1188 -5838 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 282 5504 0.002 17
United Kingdom 998 5269 0.002 22
Top States for JEANS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 204 3820 0.004 36
Texas 193 9788 0.001 9
California 129 19540 0.000 4
Arkansas 94 3642 0.004 35
Oregon 75 6135 0.002 22
Top States for JEANS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 204 3820 0.004 36
Arkansas 94 3642 0.004 35
Oregon 75 6135 0.002 22
Mississippi 54 5153 0.002 19
Louisiana 68 7578 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 JEANS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JEANS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JEANS in Tennessee than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JEANS by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JEANS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 332 20.1
Mixed Race 33 2
Native American/Alaskan 25 1.51
Asian/Pacific 20 1.21
White (Hispanic) 19 1.15
White (Caucasian) 1,223 74.03

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

Meaning of JEANS in historical publications

JEANES. JEANS. Probably from the Fr. Jean, John.

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 JEANS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JEANS.

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 JEANS

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