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The POORE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,321 3922 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 713 7257 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +7608 +3335 +0.002 +17
Other Countries
Australia 202 7470 0.001 12
United Kingdom 809 6210 0.002 18
Top States for POORE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 776 1183 0.014 136
California 527 5584 0.002 16
South Carolina 493 1403 0.012 123
Virginia 432 2198 0.006 61
Florida 407 5080 0.003 25
Top States for POORE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 238 551 0.030 304
Tennessee 776 1183 0.014 136
South Carolina 493 1403 0.012 123
Kentucky 355 1665 0.009 88
West Virginia 134 1945 0.007 74

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

Classification and Origin of POORE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 304 3.65
White (Hispanic) 131 1.57
Mixed Race 112 1.35
Asian/Pacific 43 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 26 0.31
White (Caucasian) 7,705 92.6

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

Meaning of POORE in historical publications

POORE. SeePoer.

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 POORE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POORE.

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 POORE

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