The BARNUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,838	5477	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	2,652	2303	0.005	53
Change since 1880	+3186	-3174	-0.003	-31
Other Countries
Australia	8	104891	0	0
United Kingdom	13	30006	0	0

Top States for BARNUM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	742	4074	0.002	22
Michigan	508	2285	0.005	51
New York	485	4067	0.003	26
Texas	279	6974	0.001	13
Florida	266	7385	0.002	17
Top States for BARNUM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	56	1927	0.009	92
Nevada	169	1403	0.008	85
Utah	128	2337	0.006	57
Wyoming	27	2364	0.005	55
Oregon	177	2506	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of BARNUM

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 BARNUM 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 BARNUM 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 BARNUM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	618	10.59
White (Hispanic)	116	1.99
Mixed Race	104	1.78
Asian/Pacific	87	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	20	0.34
White (Caucasian)	4,893	83.81

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

Similar names to BARNUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BARNUM.

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.