The ALEXANDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	193,443	111	0.072	717
United States (1880 census)	42,764	104	0.086	855
Change since 1880	+150679	-7	-0.014	-138
Other Countries
Australia	6,560	196	0.04	401
United Kingdom	22,977	230	0.05	500

Top States for ALEXANDER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	18,764	103	0.090	900
California	14,975	178	0.044	442
Florida	11,206	123	0.070	701
New York	8,569	140	0.045	452
Ohio	8,354	102	0.074	736
Top States for ALEXANDER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	6,860	56	0.154	1,535
Mississippi	4,177	73	0.147	1,468
Alabama	6,306	84	0.142	1,418
South Carolina	5,335	82	0.133	1,330
Oklahoma	3,876	81	0.112	1,123

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

Classification and Origin of ALEXANDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	117,826	60.91
Black/African American	64,262	33.22
White (Hispanic)	4,275	2.21
Mixed Race	3,966	2.05
Asian/Pacific	1,760	0.91
Native American/Alaskan	1,354	0.7

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

Similar names to ALEXANDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALEXANDER.

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.