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The FENDERSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,597 16554 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 401 11466 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +1196 -5088 0 -2
Other Countries
Australia 1 305224 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33077 0 0
Top States for FENDERSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 202 1343 0.016 158
Michigan 171 7979 0.002 17
California 147 17761 0.000 4
Ohio 124 11499 0.001 11
Florida 92 19689 0.001 6
Top States for FENDERSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 202 1343 0.016 158
South Dakota 16 8645 0.002 21
Alabama 88 5511 0.002 20
Michigan 171 7979 0.002 17
New Hampshire 18 9275 0.001 15

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

Classification and Origin of FENDERSON

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

Ethnic distribution of FENDERSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 906 56.73
White (Caucasian) 624 39.07
White (Hispanic) 34 2.13
Mixed Race 28 1.75
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FENDERSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to FENDERSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FENDERSON.

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 FENDERSON

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