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The ANDERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 15,375 2165 0.006 57
United States (1880 census) 2,514 2417 0.005 50
Change since 1880 +12861 +252 +0.001 +7
Other Countries
Australia 345 4578 0.002 21
United Kingdom 965 5408 0.002 21
Top States for ANDERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,718 1531 0.008 82
North Carolina 1,132 1139 0.014 141
California 998 3256 0.003 29
Ohio 913 1578 0.008 80
Illinois 789 1702 0.006 64
Top States for ANDERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,132 1139 0.014 141
Alabama 544 1406 0.012 122
Louisiana 528 1270 0.012 118
South Carolina 448 1557 0.011 112
Arkansas 259 1458 0.010 97

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

Classification and Origin of ANDERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 248 1.61
Mixed Race 215 1.4
Asian/Pacific 69 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.32
White (Caucasian) 13,667 88.89
Black/African American 1,129 7.34

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

Meaning of ANDERS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ANDERS.

Similar names to ANDERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ANDERS.

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 ANDERS

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