The AMOS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,817	1436	0.008	85
United States (1880 census)	4,492	1385	0.009	90
Change since 1880	+18325	-51	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	1,952	834	0.012	119
United Kingdom	6,528	971	0.014	142

Top States for AMOS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	1,723	529	0.024	243
California	1,543	2183	0.005	46
Texas	1,507	1730	0.007	72
Florida	1,281	1700	0.008	80
Ohio	1,190	1191	0.010	105
Top States for AMOS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	476	609	0.026	263
Mississippi	694	676	0.024	244
Virginia	1,723	529	0.024	243
Oklahoma	525	958	0.015	152
Tennessee	864	1088	0.015	152

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

Classification and Origin of AMOS

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 AMOS 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 AMOS 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 AMOS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	470	2.06
Native American/Alaskan	452	1.98
Mixed Race	324	1.42
Asian/Pacific	169	0.74
White (Caucasian)	14,993	65.71
Black/African American	6,412	28.1

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

Similar names to AMOS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as AMOS.

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.