The CASE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	38,759	813	0.014	144
United States (1880 census)	15,071	380	0.03	301
Change since 1880	+23688	-433	-0.016	-157
Other Countries
Australia	1,061	1557	0.006	65
United Kingdom	3,278	1907	0.007	71

Top States for CASE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,825	1142	0.008	83
New York	2,398	701	0.013	126
Michigan	2,094	448	0.021	211
Florida	2,056	976	0.013	129
Ohio	2,040	602	0.018	180
Top States for CASE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,198	341	0.042	421
Kentucky	1,225	490	0.030	303
Wyoming	135	351	0.027	273
Idaho	353	439	0.027	273
Oregon	907	384	0.027	265

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

Classification and Origin of CASE

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 CASE 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 CASE 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 CASE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	775	2
White (Hispanic)	578	1.49
Mixed Race	519	1.34
Native American/Alaskan	403	1.04
Asian/Pacific	225	0.58
White (Caucasian)	36,259	93.55

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

Meaning of CASE in historical publications

(origin: French.) Case. A hut, a hovel; Gaelic, cass, caise, steep; quick, hasty, passionate.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

CASE. This name is found in the H.R. and may be the Anglo-Norman cas, chance, hazard — probably with reference to the char.acter, or some incident in the life, of the first person who bore it. So Hazai'd has become a family name. A family in Devonshire thus designated account for it by a tradition that, about two hundred years since, a foundling was laid at the door of a certain gentleman, to whom popular scandal attributed its paternity ; the gCTitleman denied the allegation, but from motives of liumanity had the infant taken care of, and, from the circumstance of its having been enclosed in a packing-case, imposed upon the poor foundling this curious appellation. The Fr. case, from Latin casa, a mean house, cottage, or hut, is, however, a more likely etymon.

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 CASE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CASE.

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.