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The CUMMING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,282 9138 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 1,918 3088 0.004 38
Change since 1880 +1364 -6050 -0.003 -26
Other Countries
Australia 1,900 864 0.012 116
United Kingdom 4,799 1312 0.01 104
Top States for CUMMING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 416 6547 0.001 12
Florida 267 7150 0.002 17
Texas 214 8373 0.001 10
Michigan 204 5877 0.002 21
New York 193 9792 0.001 10
Top States for CUMMING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 51 3626 0.004 40
New Hampshire 42 3998 0.003 34
Vermont 18 4828 0.003 30
Nebraska 50 5100 0.003 29
Massachusetts 165 5007 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of CUMMING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CUMMING 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 CUMMING 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 CUMMING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 265 8.07
White (Hispanic) 60 1.83
Mixed Race 35 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 28 0.85
Asian/Pacific 18 0.55
White (Caucasian) 2,876 87.63

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

Meaning of CUMMING in historical publications

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

Similar names to CUMMING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CUMMING.

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 CUMMING

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