The ENNIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,102	2061	0.006	60
United States (1880 census)	5,131	1191	0.01	103
Change since 1880	+10971	-870	-0.004	-43
Other Countries
Australia	515	3129	0.003	32
United Kingdom	2,421	2522	0.005	53

Top States for ENNIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,233	1694	0.008	77
California	1,172	2739	0.003	35
North Carolina	1,167	1054	0.014	145
New York	970	1954	0.005	51
Texas	731	3207	0.004	35
Top States for ENNIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	273	451	0.035	348
North Carolina	1,167	1054	0.014	145
Maryland	674	913	0.013	127
Vermont	74	1525	0.012	122
Alabama	534	1392	0.012	120

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

Classification and Origin of ENNIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	242	1.5
White (Hispanic)	240	1.49
Native American/Alaskan	92	0.57
Asian/Pacific	72	0.45
White (Caucasian)	13,725	85.24
Black/African American	1,729	10.74

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

Similar names to ENNIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ENNIS.

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.