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The PUTMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,949 3649 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 3,518 1738 0.007 70
Change since 1880 +5431 -1911 -0.004 -37
Other Countries
Australia 56 23133 0 3
United Kingdom 518 8623 0.001 11
Top States for PUTMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 855 2707 0.004 41
Alabama 831 922 0.019 187
Michigan 596 1902 0.006 60
California 575 5035 0.002 17
New York 569 3442 0.003 30
Top States for PUTMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 831 922 0.019 187
South Carolina 339 1912 0.008 84
Oklahoma 279 1730 0.008 81
Alaska 48 1785 0.008 77
Tennessee 393 2167 0.007 69

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

Classification and Origin of PUTMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 704 7.87
Mixed Race 138 1.54
White (Hispanic) 133 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 47 0.53
Asian/Pacific 38 0.42
White (Caucasian) 7,889 88.16

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

Meaning of PUTMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to PUTMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PUTMAN.

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 PUTMAN

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