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The FEAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,729 15530 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 450 10520 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1279 -5010 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 302 5190 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,965 2999 0.004 43
Top States for FEAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 169 15108 0.000 5
Illinois 155 8828 0.001 12
Indiana 136 5795 0.002 22
Ohio 126 10881 0.001 11
Michigan 100 13037 0.001 10
Top States for FEAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 27 2536 0.005 55
Iowa 83 5518 0.003 28
Indiana 136 5795 0.002 22
Nebraska 38 7557 0.002 22
Colorado 71 7926 0.002 17

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

Classification and Origin of FEAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 33 1.91
Black/African American 19 1.1
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.69
White (Hispanic) 11 0.64
Asian/Pacific 9 0.52
White (Caucasian) 1,645 95.14

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

Meaning of FEAR in historical publications

FEAR. Gaelic, a man, a hero —the Latin

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 FEAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FEAR.

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 FEAR

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