The ENGLISH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	45,032	692	0.017	167
United States (1880 census)	12,751	461	0.026	255
Change since 1880	+32281	-231	-0.009	-88
Other Countries
Australia	2,784	565	0.017	170
United Kingdom	8,505	717	0.019	185

Top States for ENGLISH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	3,746	694	0.018	180
California	3,332	1000	0.010	98
Florida	3,292	595	0.021	206
Pennsylvania	2,642	446	0.022	215
Georgia	2,528	401	0.031	309
Top States for ENGLISH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	1,363	477	0.034	340
Georgia	2,528	401	0.031	309
Alabama	1,350	566	0.030	304
Delaware	212	626	0.027	271
North Carolina	2,055	574	0.026	255

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

Classification and Origin of ENGLISH

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 ENGLISH 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 ENGLISH 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 ENGLISH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	820	1.82
White (Hispanic)	748	1.66
Native American/Alaskan	275	0.61
Asian/Pacific	252	0.56
White (Caucasian)	33,355	74.07
Black/African American	9,578	21.27

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

Similar names to ENGLISH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ENGLISH.

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.