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The FEE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,687 4819 0.002 25
United States (1880 census) 2,069 2896 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +4618 -1923 -0.002 -16
Other Countries
Australia 148 10004 0.001 9
United Kingdom 1,283 4284 0.003 28
Top States for FEE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 587 5118 0.002 17
Ohio 553 2653 0.005 49
Pennsylvania 385 4171 0.003 31
New York 380 5404 0.002 20
Florida 348 5970 0.002 22
Top States for FEE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 331 1799 0.008 82
Iowa 210 1856 0.007 72
North Dakota 42 2740 0.007 65
Ohio 553 2653 0.005 49
Indiana 280 2920 0.005 46

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

Classification and Origin of FEE

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 FEE 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 FEE 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 FEE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 223 3.33
Asian/Pacific 152 2.27
Mixed Race 80 1.2
White (Hispanic) 77 1.15
Native American/Alaskan 46 0.69
White (Caucasian) 6,109 91.36

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

Meaning of FEE in historical publications

FEE. A feudal possession. Sometimes certain lands obtained this name, e. g. Bassetfs Fee, Neville's Fee.

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 FEE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FEE.

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 FEE

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