The CLOSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,261	3525	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	3,298	1862	0.007	66
Change since 1880	+5963	-1663	-0.004	-32
Other Countries
Australia	1,387	1179	0.008	85
United Kingdom	4,215	1494	0.009	92

Top States for CLOSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	711	4081	0.002	21
New York	694	2692	0.004	37
Ohio	633	2153	0.006	56
Pennsylvania	606	2449	0.005	49
Florida	554	3642	0.003	35
Top States for CLOSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	60	1964	0.007	67
Vermont	39	2579	0.006	64
North Dakota	39	2729	0.006	61
Washington	344	2103	0.006	58
Wisconsin	313	2190	0.006	58

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

Classification and Origin of CLOSE

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 CLOSE 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 CLOSE 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 CLOSE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	375	4.05
White (Hispanic)	164	1.77
Mixed Race	113	1.22
Asian/Pacific	48	0.52
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.3
White (Caucasian)	8,533	92.14

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

Similar names to CLOSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLOSE.

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.