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The LINGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,830 14849 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 312 13857 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1518 -992 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 57 22996 0 3
United Kingdom 195 16736 0 4
Top States for LINGER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 418 685 0.023 231
Ohio 366 3954 0.003 32
Florida 141 13087 0.001 9
California 85 27303 0.000 3
Texas 60 23475 0.000 3
Top States for LINGER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 418 685 0.023 231
Idaho 46 4212 0.004 36
Ohio 366 3954 0.003 32
Montana 22 6944 0.002 24
Wyoming 11 6965 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of LINGER

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 LINGER 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 LINGER 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 LINGER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 20 1.09
White (Hispanic) 19 1.04
Black/African American 11 0.6
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.38
Asian/Pacific 5 0.27
White (Caucasian) 1,768 96.61

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

Meaning of LINGER in historical publications

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

Similar names to LINGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LINGER.

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 LINGER

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