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The CONYERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,329 5088 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 1,027 5330 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +5302 +242 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 120 12160 0.001 7
United Kingdom 422 10017 0.001 9
Top States for CONYERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 960 737 0.024 239
Florida 512 4345 0.003 32
North Carolina 442 2688 0.005 55
New York 404 5254 0.002 21
Georgia 340 3006 0.004 42
Top States for CONYERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 960 737 0.024 239
Washington DC 33 1993 0.006 58
North Carolina 442 2688 0.005 55
Maryland 235 2832 0.004 44
Arkansas 118 3132 0.004 44

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

Classification and Origin of CONYERS

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 CONYERS 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 CONYERS 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 CONYERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 98 1.55
White (Hispanic) 86 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.4
Asian/Pacific 15 0.24
Black/African American 3,555 56.17
White (Caucasian) 2,550 40.29

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

Meaning of CONYERS in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Coigniers, in Normandy, their ancient residence; came into England with William the Conqueror.

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


CONYERS. "Of this ancient family, originally \\Tote Coignicrs, denominated fi"om a place of that name in France, was Roger de Coigniers, that came into England about the end of the reign of Will, the Conqueror, to whom the bishop of Durham gave the coustableship of Durham." Kimber. The family gave the suffix to Howton Coigniers, co. York.

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 CONYERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CONYERS.

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 CONYERS

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