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The PORTIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,863 10312 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 444 10633 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2419 +321 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 12 76829 0 1
United Kingdom 115 22550 0 3
Top States for PORTIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 390 2018 0.009 88
Texas 276 7785 0.001 13
Ohio 272 5886 0.002 24
Mississippi 237 1919 0.008 83
California 212 13533 0.001 6
Top States for PORTIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 390 2018 0.009 88
Mississippi 237 1919 0.008 83
Washington DC 17 3834 0.003 30
Ohio 272 5886 0.002 24
Michigan 169 8515 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of PORTIS

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 PORTIS 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 PORTIS 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 PORTIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 604 21.1
Mixed Race 75 2.62
White (Hispanic) 57 1.99
Asian/Pacific 6 0.21
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.17
Black/African American 2,116 73.91

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

Meaning of PORTIS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PORTIS.

Similar names to PORTIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTIS.

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 PORTIS

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