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The ARGO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,707 8223 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 710 7275 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2997 -948 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 34 34810 0 2
United Kingdom 170 18141 0 4
Top States for ARGO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 396 2521 0.005 48
Alabama 376 1892 0.008 85
Tennessee 342 2465 0.006 60
Texas 282 6995 0.001 14
Oklahoma 238 2083 0.007 69
Top States for ARGO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 113 1281 0.014 144
Alabama 376 1892 0.008 85
Oklahoma 238 2083 0.007 69
Tennessee 342 2465 0.006 60
Georgia 396 2521 0.005 48

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

Classification and Origin of ARGO

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 81 2.19
Black/African American 70 1.89
Mixed Race 48 1.29
Native American/Alaskan 40 1.08
Asian/Pacific 17 0.46
White (Caucasian) 3,451 93.09

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

Meaning of ARGO in historical publications

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

Similar names to ARGO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ARGO.

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 ARGO

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