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The BLANK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,706 2613 0.005 47
United States (1880 census) 2,752 2206 0.006 55
Change since 1880 +9954 -407 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 236 6499 0.001 14
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for BLANK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,338 997 0.011 109
California 1,055 2926 0.003 31
New York 976 1847 0.005 51
Wisconsin 883 576 0.016 165
Florida 806 2512 0.005 50
Top States for BLANK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 883 576 0.016 165
Maryland 606 972 0.011 114
Pennsylvania 1,338 997 0.011 109
Montana 76 1478 0.008 84
Oregon 257 1641 0.008 75

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

Classification and Origin of BLANK

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 BLANK 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 BLANK 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 BLANK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 178 1.4
White (Hispanic) 168 1.32
Mixed Race 125 0.98
Asian/Pacific 44 0.35
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.12
White (Caucasian) 12,175 95.82

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

Meaning of BLANK in historical publications

BLANK. BLANKS. See Blanch.

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 BLANK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLANK.

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 BLANK

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