The PALM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,820	4754	0.003	25
United States (1880 census)	1,113	4999	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+5707	+245	+0.001	+3
Other Countries
Australia	214	7060	0.001	13
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for PALM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	661	682	0.013	134
Pennsylvania	624	2293	0.005	51
California	579	4719	0.002	17
Illinois	514	2347	0.004	41
Florida	453	4246	0.003	28
Top States for PALM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	661	682	0.013	134
North Dakota	44	2254	0.007	69
Alaska	39	2080	0.006	62
Montana	50	2331	0.006	55
Wisconsin	276	2437	0.005	51

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of PALM

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Sweden

Language of origin: Swedish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	567	8.31
White (Hispanic)	142	2.08
Mixed Race	67	0.98
Asian/Pacific	56	0.82
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.28
White (Caucasian)	5,969	87.52

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

Similar names to PALM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PALM.

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.