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The EM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 740 29932 0 3
United States (1880 census) 4 102555 0 0
Change since 1880 +736 +72623 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 35 33483 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for EM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 189 20547 0.001 6
Massachusetts 162 8216 0.003 26
New Jersey 44 36135 0.001 5
Washington 42 26244 0.001 7
Ohio 37 48623 0.000 3
Top States for EM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 162 8216 0.003 26
Washington 42 26244 0.001 7
Nevada 12 32114 0.001 6
Rhode Island 6 29707 0.001 6
California 189 20547 0.001 6

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of EM

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

Ethnic distribution of EM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 576 77.84
White (Caucasian) 78 10.54
Mixed Race 70 9.46
Black/African American 9 1.22
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of EM in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of EM.

Similar names to EM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EM.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.