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The AMORY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 467 43546 0 2
United States (1880 census) 135 25586 0 3
Change since 1880 +332 -17960 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 34 34815 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for AMORY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 91 7524 0.001 13
New York 57 30105 0.000 3
Massachusetts 38 18625 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 37 35038 0.000 3
New Jersey 29 31725 0.000 3
Top States for AMORY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 91 7524 0.001 13
Maine 14 9578 0.001 11
Nebraska 14 16962 0.001 8
West Virginia 12 9666 0.001 7
Massachusetts 38 18625 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of AMORY

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

Ethnic distribution of AMORY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 373 79.87
Black/African American 51 10.92
White (Hispanic) 22 4.71
Mixed Race 17 3.64
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of AMORY in historical publications

AMORY. A:MERY. From the personal name Emeric or Alraericus, equivalent to the Italian Amerigo, latinized Americus, whence the name of the great western continent. It seems to have undergone the following changes: Emeric, Emery, Amery, Amory, Ammorj and in Domesd. Haimericus. It is asserted, however (B.L.G.), that " the fiimily of D'Amery came to Engl, with the Conqueror from Toui-s."

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 AMORY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AMORY.

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 AMORY

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