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The BOOKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,289 19421 0 5
United States (1880 census) 445 10620 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +844 -8801 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 30 38576 0 2
United Kingdom 9 30883 0 0
Top States for BOOKS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 189 4982 0.004 35
Pennsylvania 187 9435 0.002 15
Indiana 149 5916 0.002 25
Ohio 91 16444 0.001 8
Minnesota 87 10430 0.002 18
Top States for BOOKS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 189 4982 0.004 35
Indiana 149 5916 0.002 25
Nebraska 33 9646 0.002 19
Minnesota 87 10430 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 187 9435 0.002 15

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

Classification and Origin of BOOKS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BOOKS surname.

Ethnic distribution of BOOKS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 81 6.28
White (Hispanic) 23 1.78
Mixed Race 20 1.55
Asian/Pacific 12 0.93
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.39
White (Caucasian) 1,148 89.06

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

BOOKS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BOOKS in historical publications

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

Similar names to BOOKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BOOKS.

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 BOOKS

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