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The CUMMINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,072 1633 0.007 74
United States (1880 census) 6,682 904 0.013 134
Change since 1880 +13390 -729 -0.006 -60
Other Countries
Australia 2,334 689 0.014 143
United Kingdom 5,289 1181 0.012 115
Top States for CUMMINS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,595 1984 0.005 47
Kentucky 1,382 425 0.034 342
Ohio 1,364 939 0.012 120
Texas 1,316 1810 0.006 63
Indiana 1,131 589 0.019 186
Top States for CUMMINS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,382 425 0.034 342
Indiana 1,131 589 0.019 186
Mississippi 492 896 0.017 173
Montana 139 725 0.015 154
Oklahoma 475 984 0.014 138

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

Classification and Origin of CUMMINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 739 3.68
Mixed Race 307 1.53
White (Hispanic) 287 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 187 0.93
Asian/Pacific 106 0.53
White (Caucasian) 18,446 91.9

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

Meaning of CUMMINS in historical publications

CmiMIN. CUMMINS. See Cumming.

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 CUMMINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CUMMINS.

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 CUMMINS

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