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The PLACE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,057 4600 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 3,262 1883 0.007 65
Change since 1880 +3795 -2717 -0.004 -39
Other Countries
Australia 434 3648 0.003 27
United Kingdom 1,648 3462 0.004 36
Top States for PLACE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 689 2655 0.004 36
California 482 5647 0.001 14
Michigan 446 2465 0.004 45
Pennsylvania 411 3557 0.003 33
Ohio 407 3306 0.004 36
Top States for PLACE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 87 1201 0.014 143
New Hampshire 164 1136 0.013 133
Rhode Island 112 1334 0.011 107
Maine 130 1730 0.010 102
Massachusetts 400 2146 0.006 63

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

Classification and Origin of PLACE

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 PLACE 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 PLACE 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 PLACE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 120 1.7
Mixed Race 107 1.52
Black/African American 74 1.05
Asian/Pacific 70 0.99
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.38
White (Caucasian) 6,659 94.36

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

Meaning of PLACE in historical publications

PLACE. 1. Like the Fr. place, a square or open space in a town. 2. More probably from a ' place,' or mansion. What is called in other shires a hall, or a court, is frequently known in the south-eastern counties as a 'place,' e.g. : Brasted Place, co. Kent, Wakehurst Place, co. Sussex, Crowhurst Place, CO. Surrey. PLACKETT. Apparently a diminutive of the Fr. 7??«(!<?, which Cotgrave defines

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 PLACE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PLACE.

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 PLACE

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