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The ORR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 43,666 714 0.016 162
United States (1880 census) 13,338 437 0.027 267
Change since 1880 +30328 -277 -0.011 -105
Other Countries
Australia 2,561 620 0.016 157
United Kingdom 8,801 683 0.019 192
Top States for ORR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,292 999 0.010 97
Texas 2,987 877 0.014 143
Florida 2,378 844 0.015 149
Ohio 2,257 550 0.020 199
Pennsylvania 2,069 606 0.017 168
Top States for ORR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 427 342 0.033 330
South Carolina 1,289 499 0.032 321
Alabama 1,394 525 0.031 313
Oklahoma 981 452 0.028 284
Montana 246 355 0.027 273

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

Classification and Origin of ORR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 651 1.49
Mixed Race 616 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 310 0.71
Asian/Pacific 253 0.58
White (Caucasian) 35,728 81.82
Black/African American 6,109 13.99

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

Meaning of ORR in historical publications

(origin: Local) Derived from the river and town of Orr, in Scotland. Or, in Welsh and Gaelic, signifies a border, a boundary.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


ORR. A parish in Kirkcudbrightshire, more usually written Uri\

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 ORR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORR.

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 ORR

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