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The PHO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,006 23530 0 4
United States (1880 census) -1 138852 0 0
Change since 1880 +1007 +115322 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 134 10965 0.001 8
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PHO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 361 7517 0.001 11
Texas 103 15086 0.000 5
Massachusetts 67 11588 0.001 11
Virginia 58 11067 0.001 8
Washington 48 14568 0.001 8
Top States for PHO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 9 13044 0.001 12
California 361 7517 0.001 11
Massachusetts 67 11588 0.001 11
Virginia 58 11067 0.001 8
Washington 48 14568 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of PHO

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PHO surname.

Ethnic distribution of PHO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 954 94.83
Mixed Race 38 3.78
White (Caucasian) 10 0.99
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

PHO is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PHO in historical publications

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

Similar names to PHO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHO.

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 PHO

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