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The BISSELL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,972 6308 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 2,208 2738 0.004 44
Change since 1880 +2764 -3570 -0.002 -26
Other Countries
Australia 152 9740 0.001 9
United Kingdom 1,253 4344 0.003 27
Top States for BISSELL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 488 5489 0.001 14
Michigan 375 2975 0.004 38
New York 356 5143 0.002 19
Ohio 335 3944 0.003 30
Florida 270 6855 0.002 17
Top States for BISSELL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 98 2169 0.008 77
Vermont 40 2448 0.007 66
Iowa 171 2096 0.006 58
Montana 40 3066 0.004 44
Arkansas 112 2908 0.004 42

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

Classification and Origin of BISSELL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 85 1.71
Mixed Race 51 1.03
Native American/Alaskan 49 0.99
Black/African American 29 0.58
Asian/Pacific 17 0.34
White (Caucasian) 4,741 95.35

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

Meaning of BISSELL in historical publications

BISSELL. See BIss.

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 BISSELL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BISSELL.

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 BISSELL

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