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The BLESSING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,091 6193 0.002 19
United States (1880 census) 1,533 3772 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +3558 -2421 -0.001 -12
Other Countries
Australia 40 30624 0 2
United Kingdom 93 24333 0 2
Top States for BLESSING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 566 2831 0.005 46
Ohio 491 2975 0.004 43
Indiana 313 2570 0.005 51
Texas 309 6525 0.001 15
California 290 9475 0.001 9
Top States for BLESSING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 51 2835 0.007 65
Indiana 313 2570 0.005 51
Pennsylvania 566 2831 0.005 46
Missouri 242 3249 0.004 43
Ohio 491 2975 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of BLESSING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 85 1.67
Mixed Race 54 1.06
Asian/Pacific 23 0.45
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.45
Black/African American 20 0.39
White (Caucasian) 4,886 95.97

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

Meaning of BLESSING in historical publications

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

Similar names to BLESSING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLESSING.

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 BLESSING

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