The DRUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,621	6729	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	2,115	2836	0.004	42
Change since 1880	+2506	-3893	-0.002	-25
Other Countries
Australia	138	10685	0.001	8
United Kingdom	104	23640	0	2

Top States for DRUM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	916	1446	0.011	114
Pennsylvania	342	4810	0.003	28
New York	339	6151	0.002	18
California	294	9643	0.001	9
Florida	268	7728	0.002	17
Top States for DRUM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	916	1446	0.011	114
Pennsylvania	342	4810	0.003	28
Kansas	74	4874	0.003	28
Alaska	15	7005	0.002	24
Missouri	133	5803	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of DRUM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

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 DRUM 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 DRUM 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 DRUM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	187	4.05
Native American/Alaskan	76	1.64
Mixed Race	68	1.47
White (Hispanic)	66	1.43
Asian/Pacific	30	0.65
White (Caucasian)	4,194	90.76

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

Similar names to DRUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRUM.

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.