The BLUE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,422	1461	0.008	83
United States (1880 census)	5,128	1192	0.01	103
Change since 1880	+17294	-269	-0.002	-20
Other Countries
Australia	261	5903	0.002	16
United Kingdom	483	9064	0.001	11

Top States for BLUE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,476	482	0.031	308
California	1,695	1989	0.005	50
Florida	1,658	1306	0.010	104
Texas	1,361	1864	0.007	65
Ohio	1,114	1256	0.010	98
Top States for BLUE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,476	482	0.031	308
South Dakota	142	538	0.019	188
Mississippi	424	1089	0.015	149
Washington DC	81	843	0.014	142
South Carolina	554	1263	0.014	138

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

Classification and Origin of BLUE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	724	3.23
Mixed Race	484	2.16
White (Hispanic)	289	1.29
Asian/Pacific	135	0.6
Black/African American	10,045	44.8
White (Caucasian)	10,742	47.91

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

Similar names to BLUE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLUE.

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.