The ABERCROMBIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,071	5274	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	977	5565	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+5094	+291	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	215	7034	0.001	13
United Kingdom	810	6201	0.002	18

Top States for ABERCROMBIE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	885	1178	0.011	108
South Carolina	623	1030	0.016	155
Alabama	589	1219	0.013	132
Texas	524	4087	0.003	25
California	419	6486	0.001	12
Top States for ABERCROMBIE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	623	1030	0.016	155
Alabama	589	1219	0.013	132
Georgia	885	1178	0.011	108
Mississippi	122	2788	0.004	43
Oklahoma	140	3221	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of ABERCROMBIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	949	15.63
Mixed Race	73	1.2
White (Hispanic)	71	1.17
Native American/Alaskan	36	0.59
Asian/Pacific	19	0.31
White (Caucasian)	4,923	81.09

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

Meaning of ABERCROMBIE in historical publications

(origin: Celtic and Gaelic. Local) The name of a parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Frith of Forth, whence the possessor took his surname; from Aber, marshy ground, a place where two or more streams meet; and cruime or crombie, a bend or crook. Aber, in the Celtic and Gaelic, and also in the Cornish British, signifies the confluence of two or more streams, or the mouth of a river, where it flows into the sea; hence it is often applied to marshy ground, generally near the confluence of two rivers. It also signifies, sometimes, a gulf or whirlpool.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

ABERCROMBIE. A parish in Fifesliire, the original residence of the Barons Abercromby, temp. Jas. II. of Scotl.

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 ABERCROMBIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ABERCROMBIE.

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.