The ALLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	463,368	32	0.172	1,718
United States (1880 census)	122,809	18	0.246	2,456
Change since 1880	+340559	-14	-0.074	-738
Other Countries
Australia	17,453	52	0.107	1,068
United Kingdom	80,639	42	0.176	1,756

Top States for ALLEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	38,266	35	0.184	1,835
California	32,812	59	0.097	969
Florida	27,635	36	0.173	1,729
North Carolina	21,235	19	0.264	2,638
Georgia	21,162	23	0.259	2,585
Top States for ALLEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	13,296	27	0.299	2,990
Maine	3,785	10	0.297	2,969
Mississippi	8,332	27	0.293	2,929
Tennessee	15,409	25	0.271	2,708
Kentucky	10,932	20	0.270	2,705

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

Classification and Origin of ALLEN

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 ALLEN 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 ALLEN 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 ALLEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	325,470	70.24
Black/African American	116,491	25.14
Mixed Race	8,202	1.77
White (Hispanic)	7,507	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	3,846	0.83
Asian/Pacific	1,900	0.41

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

Similar names to ALLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALLEN.

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.