The FERRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,190	2960	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	3,008	2034	0.006	60
Change since 1880	+8182	-926	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	564	2873	0.003	35
United Kingdom	2,053	2894	0.004	45

Top States for FERRY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,593	969	0.013	130
California	944	3637	0.003	28
Florida	678	3461	0.004	42
New Jersey	606	1715	0.007	72
New York	597	3707	0.003	31
Top States for FERRY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	1,593	969	0.013	130
Delaware	95	1717	0.012	121
Rhode Island	115	1578	0.011	110
North Dakota	52	2300	0.008	81
Massachusetts	490	2093	0.008	77

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

Classification and Origin of FERRY

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 FERRY 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 FERRY 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 FERRY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	551	4.92
White (Hispanic)	170	1.52
Mixed Race	137	1.22
Asian/Pacific	67	0.6
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.35
White (Caucasian)	10,228	91.4

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

Similar names to FERRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERRY.

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.