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The AINSLIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,024 23237 0 4
United States (1880 census) 152 23524 0 3
Change since 1880 +872 +287 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 182 8240 0.001 11
United Kingdom 1,038 5101 0.002 23
Top States for AINSLIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 107 20883 0.000 3
New York 91 19626 0.000 5
Washington 87 7981 0.001 15
Michigan 85 14186 0.001 9
Massachusetts 73 10296 0.001 11
Top States for AINSLIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 26 5877 0.002 20
Wyoming 8 8323 0.002 16
Washington 87 7981 0.001 15
South Dakota 11 10449 0.001 15
Massachusetts 73 10296 0.001 11

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

Classification and Origin of AINSLIE

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 AINSLIE 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 AINSLIE 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 AINSLIE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 953 93.07
White (Hispanic) 36 3.52
Mixed Race 18 1.76
Asian/Pacific 8 0.78
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of AINSLIE in historical publications

AINSLEY. AINSLIE. A place in Scotland, but I cannot ascertain the county. Tliomas de Ainslie, tlie baronet's ancestor, was "of that ilk" in 1214.

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 AINSLIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AINSLIE.

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 AINSLIE

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