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The PORT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,797 10524 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 693 7419 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2104 -3105 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 226 6742 0.001 14
United Kingdom 1,028 5157 0.002 22
Top States for PORT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 318 8423 0.001 9
Pennsylvania 294 5169 0.002 24
New York 278 6977 0.001 15
Florida 188 9835 0.001 12
South Carolina 131 3841 0.003 33
Top States for PORT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 35 2531 0.006 56
South Carolina 131 3841 0.003 33
Iowa 78 5668 0.003 27
Pennsylvania 294 5169 0.002 24
North Dakota 14 8129 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of PORT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 86 3.07
White (Hispanic) 45 1.61
Mixed Race 43 1.54
Asian/Pacific 36 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.29
White (Caucasian) 2,579 92.21

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

Meaning of PORT in historical publications

PORT. Hugo de Port came into England at the Norman Conquest, and held fifty-five lordships in llie counties of Hants and Dorset, as tenant in capite. One of his descendants assumed the surname of SaintJohn. A Hubert de Port was also a tenant in capite in Hampshire, at the making of Domesday Book. Kelham's Domesday.

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 PORT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORT.

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 PORT

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