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The BANNISTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,110 4019 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 1,160 4814 0.002 23
Change since 1880 +6950 +795 +0.001 +7
Other Countries
Australia 1,311 1252 0.008 80
United Kingdom 7,458 826 0.016 162
Top States for BANNISTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 606 1114 0.015 151
California 524 5533 0.002 15
New York 505 3932 0.003 27
Texas 473 4603 0.002 23
Florida 470 4442 0.003 29
Top States for BANNISTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 606 1114 0.015 151
New Hampshire 69 2751 0.006 56
Alabama 248 2623 0.006 56
Georgia 456 2252 0.006 56
Vermont 32 3147 0.005 53

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

Classification and Origin of BANNISTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 177 2.18
Mixed Race 162 2
Asian/Pacific 114 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 22 0.27
White (Caucasian) 5,766 71.1
Black/African American 1,869 23.05

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

Meaning of BANNISTER in historical publications

The keeper of a bath; from the French bain, a bath.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BANNISTER. BANISTER. Banastre

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BANNISTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BANNISTER.

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 BANNISTER

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