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The MINNIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,954 10062 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 730 7123 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +2224 -2939 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 131 11217 0.001 8
United Kingdom 604 7750 0.001 13
Top States for MINNIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 329 9126 0.001 10
Florida 286 7633 0.002 18
Missouri 197 4243 0.004 35
Illinois 178 8340 0.001 14
Pennsylvania 172 9880 0.001 14
Top States for MINNIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 98 3886 0.004 36
Missouri 197 4243 0.004 35
Washington DC 17 3817 0.003 30
Tennessee 164 4666 0.003 29
Virginia 134 6338 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of MINNIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 879 29.76
Mixed Race 71 2.4
White (Hispanic) 65 2.2
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.58
Asian/Pacific 7 0.24
White (Caucasian) 1,915 64.83

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

Meaning of MINNIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to MINNIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MINNIS.

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 MINNIS

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