The FERRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,743	1585	0.008	77
United States (1880 census)	6,596	922	0.013	132
Change since 1880	+14147	-663	-0.005	-55
Other Countries
Australia	1,839	886	0.011	112
United Kingdom	5,979	1049	0.013	130

Top States for FERRIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,037	838	0.011	107
California	1,951	1671	0.006	58
Michigan	1,535	650	0.015	154
Florida	1,399	1470	0.009	88
Massachusetts	1,073	804	0.017	169
Top States for FERRIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	158	606	0.026	260
Wyoming	99	521	0.020	200
Massachusetts	1,073	804	0.017	169
Maine	210	1184	0.016	165
Michigan	1,535	650	0.015	154

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

Classification and Origin of FERRIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	471	2.27
White (Hispanic)	419	2.02
Mixed Race	268	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	220	1.06
Asian/Pacific	108	0.52
White (Caucasian)	19,260	92.85

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

Similar names to FERRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERRIS.

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.