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The BROWN RIGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 680 32026 0 2
United States (1880 census) 166 22078 0 3
Change since 1880 +514 -9948 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 190 7917 0.001 12
United Kingdom 443 9661 0.001 10
Top States for BROWN RIGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 69 17666 0.001 7
California 60 35136 0.000 2
Texas 51 25282 0.000 2
New York 44 38707 0.000 2
Ohio 39 28930 0.000 3
Top States for BROWN RIGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 7 9717 0.001 14
Nebraska 18 13742 0.001 11
South Dakota 7 15125 0.001 9
Kansas 23 13026 0.001 9
Colorado 35 14417 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of BROWN RIGG

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 BROWN RIGG 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 BROWN RIGG 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 BROWN RIGG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 598 87.94
Native American/Alaskan 32 4.71
Black/African American 23 3.38
Mixed Race 14 2.06
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BROWN RIGG in historical publications

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

Similar names to BROWN RIGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROWN RIGG.

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 BROWN RIGG

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