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

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 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.

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.