The ELGIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,969	10013	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	920	5853	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+2049	-4160	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	19	53749	0	1
United Kingdom	82	24778	0	2

Top States for ELGIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	271	2291	0.007	68
Virginia	224	3789	0.003	32
California	222	11620	0.001	7
Texas	152	11353	0.001	7
Missouri	149	4957	0.003	27
Top States for ELGIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	271	2291	0.007	68
Iowa	140	2971	0.005	48
Virginia	224	3789	0.003	32
Missouri	149	4957	0.003	27
Montana	23	6107	0.003	25

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

Classification and Origin of ELGIN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ELGIN surname.

Ethnic distribution of ELGIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	170	5.73
Native American/Alaskan	46	1.55
Mixed Race	40	1.35
White (Hispanic)	35	1.18
Asian/Pacific	5	0.17
White (Caucasian)	2,673	90.03

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

ELGIN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to ELGIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ELGIN.

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.