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The PAUL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 72,248 401 0.027 268
United States (1880 census) 13,883 419 0.028 278
Change since 1880 +58365 +18 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 2,961 522 0.018 181
United Kingdom 11,048 540 0.024 241
Top States for PAUL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 6,509 259 0.041 407
California 5,675 524 0.017 168
New York 5,410 260 0.029 285
Pennsylvania 4,164 243 0.034 339
Texas 3,686 664 0.018 177
Top States for PAUL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 406 125 0.065 648
Louisiana 2,207 251 0.049 494
Maine 577 375 0.045 453
North Dakota 282 160 0.044 439
New Hampshire 514 301 0.042 416

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

Classification and Origin of PAUL

Region of origin: Asia

Ethnic distribution of PAUL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 53,319 73.8
Black/African American 11,675 16.16
Asian/Pacific 2,623 3.63
Mixed Race 1,878 2.6
Native American/Alaskan 1,402 1.94
White (Hispanic) 1,351 1.87

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

Meaning of PAUL in historical publications

PAUL. PAULL. 1. A well-known Christian name. 2. A parish in Yorkshire, olim Pagliill.

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 PAUL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PAUL.

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 PAUL

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