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The SIMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 107,244 254 0.04 398
United States (1880 census) 18,065 303 0.036 361
Change since 1880 +89179 +49 +0.004 +37
Other Countries
Australia 3,343 449 0.02 205
United Kingdom 11,866 495 0.026 258
Top States for SIMS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 11,738 201 0.056 563
Georgia 7,932 102 0.097 969
Alabama 7,438 66 0.167 1,673
California 6,724 480 0.020 199
Florida 5,954 298 0.037 373
Top States for SIMS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 7,438 66 0.167 1,673
Mississippi 4,095 78 0.144 1,440
South Carolina 4,191 122 0.104 1,045
Arkansas 2,673 103 0.100 1,000
Georgia 7,932 102 0.097 969

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

Classification and Origin of SIMS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 547 0.51
Asian/Pacific 343 0.32
White (Caucasian) 60,957 56.84
Black/African American 41,975 39.14
Mixed Race 1,898 1.77
White (Hispanic) 1,523 1.42

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

Meaning of SIMS in historical publications

SIMS. See Simon.

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 SIMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SIMS.

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 SIMS

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