The ABLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,362	12107	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	2,519	2414	0.005	50
Change since 1880	-157	-9693	-0.004	-41
Other Countries
Australia	22	48919	0	1
United Kingdom	210	15953	0	5

Top States for ABLE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	321	2157	0.008	80
Texas	145	12549	0.001	7
Kentucky	139	3765	0.003	34
Virginia	113	7071	0.002	16
Indiana	108	7497	0.002	18
Top States for ABLE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	321	2157	0.008	80
Kentucky	139	3765	0.003	34
Alabama	89	5544	0.002	20
Idaho	24	7958	0.002	19
Oregon	62	7650	0.002	18

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

Classification and Origin of ABLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	509	21.55
White (Hispanic)	43	1.82
Mixed Race	25	1.06
Asian/Pacific	22	0.93
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.59
White (Caucasian)	1,749	74.05

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

Similar names to ABLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ABLE.

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.