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The ERLING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 363 53420 0 1
United States (1880 census) 37 57851 0 1
Change since 1880 +326 +4431 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 6 132874 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ERLING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 32 64394 0.000 1
Minnesota 29 26633 0.001 6
Arizona 28 19086 0.001 5
Connecticut 26 18296 0.001 8
Iowa 23 18583 0.001 8
Top States for ERLING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 18 6476 0.003 28
Idaho 22 8450 0.002 17
Vermont 6 13071 0.001 10
Iowa 23 18583 0.001 8
Connecticut 26 18296 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of ERLING

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

Ethnic distribution of ERLING in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 342 94.21
White (Hispanic) 7 1.93
Asian/Pacific 5 1.38
Mixed Race 5 1.38
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of ERLING in historical publications

ERLING. An ancient Norse appellation. Magnus Erlingsson was king of Norway from 11G2 to 1184.

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 ERLING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ERLING.

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.

Potential typos for ERLING

The following words are slight variants of ERLING that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.