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The POST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 23,155 1406 0.009 86
United States (1880 census) 8,704 687 0.017 174
Change since 1880 +14451 -719 -0.008 -88
Other Countries
Australia 596 2712 0.004 36
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POST by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,881 877 0.010 99
California 1,747 1793 0.005 52
Michigan 1,580 597 0.016 159
Florida 1,508 1320 0.009 94
Ohio 1,254 1016 0.011 110
Top States for POST by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 120 821 0.020 197
Iowa 511 551 0.017 175
Michigan 1,580 597 0.016 159
Alaska 99 753 0.016 158
Wisconsin 817 630 0.015 152

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

Classification and Origin of POST

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 POST 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 POST 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 POST in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 294 1.27
Black/African American 292 1.26
Mixed Race 280 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 139 0.6
Asian/Pacific 132 0.57
White (Caucasian) 22,020 95.1

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

Meaning of POST in historical publications

POST. A special messenger; a courier.

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 POST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POST.

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 POST

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