The FINLAYSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,282	12475	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	244	16660	0	5
Change since 1880	+2038	+4185	+N/A	+3
Other Countries
Australia	1,102	1508	0.007	67
United Kingdom	2,973	2084	0.006	65

Top States for FINLAYSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	211	8599	0.001	13
California	179	13419	0.001	5
Utah	148	1944	0.007	66
New York	142	12926	0.001	7
Massachusetts	107	7285	0.002	17
Top States for FINLAYSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	148	1944	0.007	66
Vermont	22	4073	0.004	36
Idaho	41	4307	0.003	32
Montana	22	6118	0.002	24
Wyoming	12	5509	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of FINLAYSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	127	5.57
Mixed Race	35	1.53
White (Hispanic)	26	1.14
Asian/Pacific	16	0.7
White (Caucasian)	2,078	91.06
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	0

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

Similar names to FINLAYSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FINLAYSON.

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.