The CURL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,131	6147	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	1,275	4445	0.003	26
Change since 1880	+3856	-1702	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	107	13445	0.001	7
United Kingdom	740	6636	0.002	16

Top States for CURL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	547	4132	0.003	26
California	444	6490	0.001	13
Florida	324	6291	0.002	20
Ohio	320	4498	0.003	28
Georgia	319	3026	0.004	39
Top States for CURL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oregon	204	2176	0.006	60
Indiana	304	2630	0.005	50
Kentucky	169	3059	0.004	42
Georgia	319	3026	0.004	39
South Dakota	28	4974	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of CURL

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 CURL 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 CURL 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 CURL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	482	9.39
White (Hispanic)	103	2.01
Mixed Race	65	1.27
Native American/Alaskan	43	0.84
Asian/Pacific	20	0.39
White (Caucasian)	4,418	86.1

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

Similar names to CURL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CURL.

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.