The ANSARI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,267	9180	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	-1	116671	0	0
Change since 1880	+3268	+107491	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	49	25805	0	3
United Kingdom	684	7035	0.001	15

Top States for ANSARI by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	673	4210	0.002	20
Illinois	332	3743	0.003	27
Texas	320	5970	0.002	15
New York	295	6302	0.002	16
Florida	173	10188	0.001	11
Top States for ANSARI by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	332	3743	0.003	27
Maryland	115	4879	0.002	22
California	673	4210	0.002	20
Virginia	139	5373	0.002	20
New Jersey	141	6614	0.002	17

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

Classification and Origin of ANSARI

Region of origin: Middle East

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of ANSARI in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	952	29.14
Mixed Race	378	11.57
Black/African American	248	7.59
White (Hispanic)	50	1.53
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.21
Asian/Pacific	1,632	49.95

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

Similar names to ANSARI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ANSARI.

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.