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The FAMA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,239 20028 0 5
United States (1880 census) -1 114275 0 0
Change since 1880 +1240 +94247 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 41 29756 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FAMA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 223 4270 0.003 27
New York 199 9447 0.001 10
California 182 13416 0.001 5
Massachusetts 131 6161 0.002 21
Florida 92 17984 0.001 6
Top States for FAMA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 223 4270 0.003 27
Connecticut 86 5207 0.003 25
Massachusetts 131 6161 0.002 21
West Virginia 30 5380 0.002 17
Alaska 9 10907 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of FAMA

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

Ethnic distribution of FAMA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 79 6.38
White (Hispanic) 36 2.91
Mixed Race 27 2.18
White (Caucasian) 1,089 87.89
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 FAMA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

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

Meaning of FAMA in historical publications

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

Similar names to FAMA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAMA.

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 FAMA

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