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The AFRICA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 452 44738 0 2
United States (1880 census) 59 45189 0 1
Change since 1880 +393 +451 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 8 106988 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for AFRICA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 156 15564 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 46 29356 0.000 4
Virginia 24 21304 0.000 3
Nevada 23 9566 0.001 12
Illinois 22 54454 0.000 2
Top States for AFRICA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 23 9566 0.001 12
Delaware 5 23098 0.001 6
Hawaii 6 16442 0.000 5
Idaho 6 23511 0.000 5
California 156 15564 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of AFRICA

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

Ethnic distribution of AFRICA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 206 45.58
White (Caucasian) 195 43.14
Mixed Race 22 4.87
Black/African American 16 3.54
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of AFRICA in historical publications

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

Similar names to AFRICA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AFRICA.

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 AFRICA

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