The ADAMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	413,086	39	0.153	1,531
United States (1880 census)	97,447	31	0.195	1,949
Change since 1880	+315639	-8	-0.042	-418
Other Countries
Australia	15,018	66	0.092	919
United Kingdom	58,923	70	0.128	1,283

Top States for ADAMS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	30,866	50	0.148	1,480
California	28,487	73	0.084	841
Florida	24,694	43	0.155	1,545
Ohio	20,416	25	0.180	1,798
Georgia	19,352	27	0.236	2,364
Top States for ADAMS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	12,186	16	0.302	3,015
Alabama	11,910	33	0.268	2,678
Louisiana	11,417	30	0.255	2,555
South Carolina	9,970	30	0.249	2,485
Georgia	19,352	27	0.236	2,364

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

Classification and Origin of ADAMS

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 ADAMS 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 ADAMS 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 ADAMS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	314,648	76.17
Black/African American	79,313	19.2
White (Hispanic)	7,270	1.76
Mixed Race	6,733	1.63
Native American/Alaskan	3,263	0.79
Asian/Pacific	1,859	0.45

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

Similar names to ADAMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ADAMS.

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.