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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

'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.

Meaning of CLOSE in historical publications

CLOSE. Any piece of ground that Is enclosed with hedge, wall, or water.

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 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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CLOSE

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