The ECCLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,916	10159	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	691	7433	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+2225	-2726	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	608	2662	0.004	37
United Kingdom	5,285	1183	0.012	115

Top States for ECCLES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	288	8960	0.001	9
Florida	176	10148	0.001	11
New York	168	11058	0.001	9
New Jersey	167	5738	0.002	20
Illinois	164	7775	0.001	13
Top States for ECCLES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	102	2722	0.005	46
Idaho	36	4949	0.003	28
Kansas	73	4440	0.003	27
Oklahoma	77	5371	0.002	22
Arizona	110	5215	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of ECCLES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	292	10.01
Mixed Race	46	1.58
White (Hispanic)	43	1.47
Asian/Pacific	26	0.89
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.41
White (Caucasian)	2,497	85.63

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

Meaning of ECCLES in historical publications

A church, from the Greek ??, an assembly, a church, Gaelic eaglais, Cor. Br., Egles and Eglas.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

ECCLES. 1. A parish In Lancashire; another in Norfolk. 2. " Assumed by the proprietors of the lands and barony of Eccles in Dumfries-shire, as early as the period when surnames first became hereditary iu Scotlaud. John de Eccles was a personage of rank in the reign of Alexander III." B.L.G.

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 ECCLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ECCLES.

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.