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The MAGNESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,929 10123 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 582 8543 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +2347 -1580 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 9 95746 0 1
United Kingdom 242 14673 0.001 5
Top States for MAGNESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 498 4308 0.002 24
California 290 9120 0.001 9
Arkansas 267 1340 0.010 100
Pennsylvania 185 8149 0.002 15
Oklahoma 169 2806 0.005 49
Top States for MAGNESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 267 1340 0.010 100
Oklahoma 169 2806 0.005 49
Maryland 138 4266 0.003 26
Texas 498 4308 0.002 24
Tennessee 128 5057 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 MAGNESS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MAGNESS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MAGNESS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MAGNESS by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MAGNESS

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 MAGNESS 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 MAGNESS 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 MAGNESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 114 3.89
Mixed Race 50 1.71
White (Hispanic) 49 1.67
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.38
Asian/Pacific 6 0.2
White (Caucasian) 2,699 92.15

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

Meaning of MAGNESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to MAGNESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAGNESS.

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 MAGNESS

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