The ANWAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,847	14745	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	-1	116586	0	0
Change since 1880	+1848	+101841	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	67	19971	0	4
United Kingdom	2,551	2413	0.006	56

Top States for ANWAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	346	7662	0.001	10
New York	264	7178	0.001	14
Texas	163	10404	0.001	8
Illinois	143	8964	0.001	12
Virginia	136	5543	0.002	19
Top States for ANWAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	136	5543	0.002	19
New Jersey	135	7076	0.002	16
New York	264	7178	0.001	14
Maryland	69	7980	0.001	13
Washington DC	7	7212	0.001	12

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

Classification and Origin of ANWAR

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Pakistan

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of ANWAR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	305	16.51
Mixed Race	255	13.81
Black/African American	54	2.92
Asian/Pacific	1,205	65.24
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to ANWAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ANWAR.

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.