The EARL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,347	2170	0.006	57
United States (1880 census)	4,961	1244	0.01	99
Change since 1880	+10386	-926	-0.004	-42
Other Countries
Australia	1,456	1127	0.009	89
United Kingdom	5,286	1182	0.012	115

Top States for EARL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,316	2493	0.004	39
Michigan	1,033	1077	0.010	104
Texas	1,018	2402	0.005	49
New York	993	1937	0.005	52
Florida	783	2730	0.005	49
Top States for EARL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	741	370	0.033	332
Idaho	215	804	0.017	166
Delaware	95	1531	0.012	121
Nevada	239	988	0.012	120
Wyoming	56	1089	0.011	113

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

Classification and Origin of EARL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	276	1.8
Mixed Race	230	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	109	0.71
Asian/Pacific	57	0.37
White (Caucasian)	11,432	74.49
Black/African American	3,241	21.12

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

Similar names to EARL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EARL.

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.