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The FERGURSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 276 66878 0 1
United States (1880 census) 488 9880 0.001 10
Change since 1880 -212 -56998 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 8 31135 0 0
Top States for FERGURSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 39 31895 0.000 2
Illinois 37 35563 0.000 3
Florida 13 100118 0.000 1
New York 13 116271 0.000 1
Louisiana 12 25083 0.000 3
Top States for FERGURSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 37 35563 0.000 3
Louisiana 12 25083 0.000 3
Oregon 9 38554 0.000 3
Maryland 12 39241 0.000 2
Colorado 9 48666 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of FERGURSON

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

Ethnic distribution of FERGURSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 158 57.25
Black/African American 104 37.68
White (Hispanic) 8 2.9
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of FERGURSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to FERGURSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERGURSON.

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 FERGURSON

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