The POWERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	90,401	304	0.034	335
United States (1880 census)	28,389	180	0.057	568
Change since 1880	+62012	-124	-0.023	-233
Other Countries
Australia	304	5140	0.002	19
United Kingdom	1,738	3310	0.004	38

Top States for POWERS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	6,720	458	0.020	198
Florida	5,145	323	0.032	322
Massachusetts	5,024	87	0.079	791
New York	4,832	300	0.025	255
Texas	4,832	507	0.023	232
Top States for POWERS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	509	98	0.084	836
Massachusetts	5,024	87	0.079	791
Maine	860	249	0.067	675
New Hampshire	783	158	0.063	634
Tennessee	3,503	214	0.062	616

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of POWERS

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 POWERS 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 POWERS 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 POWERS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	470	0.52
Asian/Pacific	461	0.51
White (Caucasian)	82,274	91.01
Black/African American	4,647	5.14
Mixed Race	1,112	1.23
White (Hispanic)	1,428	1.58

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

Similar names to POWERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POWERS.

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.