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The NEWSHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 650 33169 0 2
United States (1880 census) 86 34677 0 2
Change since 1880 +564 +1508 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 128 11426 0.001 8
United Kingdom 1,103 4850 0.002 24
Top States for NEWSHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 85 8119 0.002 15
California 51 41042 0.000 2
Michigan 43 28062 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 39 33744 0.000 3
Rhode Island 37 4152 0.004 35
Top States for NEWSHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 37 4152 0.004 35
Missouri 85 8119 0.002 15
Nebraska 18 14134 0.001 11
Nevada 19 11637 0.001 10
Hawaii 9 11974 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of NEWSHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 605 93.08
Mixed Race 21 3.23
White (Hispanic) 10 1.54
Asian/Pacific 8 1.23
Black/African American 6 0.92
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of NEWSHAM in historical publications

NEWSHAM. NEWSAiM. NEWSOME. Newsham ; several townships in cos. Lancaster, York, kc. ; Newsholme ; a township in Y'orkshire. NEWSON. Qu. : Nephew's son. See

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 NEWSHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NEWSHAM.

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 NEWSHAM

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