The ALLISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	51,504	590	0.019	191
United States (1880 census)	12,563	472	0.025	251
Change since 1880	+38941	-118	-0.006	-60
Other Countries
Australia	2,138	753	0.013	131
United Kingdom	12,084	487	0.026	263

Top States for ALLISON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,786	530	0.023	230
California	3,819	842	0.011	113
Pennsylvania	2,891	392	0.024	235
North Carolina	2,855	387	0.035	355
Florida	2,550	781	0.016	160
Top States for ALLISON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,524	407	0.038	380
Arkansas	974	339	0.036	364
Oklahoma	1,255	339	0.036	364
Tennessee	2,061	416	0.036	362
North Carolina	2,855	387	0.035	355

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

Classification and Origin of ALLISON

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 ALLISON 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 ALLISON 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 ALLISON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	809	1.57
White (Hispanic)	783	1.52
Native American/Alaskan	633	1.23
Asian/Pacific	232	0.45
White (Caucasian)	42,753	83.01
Black/African American	6,294	12.22

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

Similar names to ALLISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALLISON.

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.