The FIRTH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,124	9546	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,034	5303	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+2090	-4243	-0.001	-9
Other Countries
Australia	1,534	1069	0.009	94
United Kingdom	9,492	634	0.021	207

Top States for FIRTH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	292	8933	0.001	9
Pennsylvania	243	6143	0.002	20
Florida	216	8563	0.001	14
Virginia	184	4353	0.003	26
Texas	175	9883	0.001	8
Top States for FIRTH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	126	2282	0.006	56
Maine	44	4006	0.003	35
Montana	27	5015	0.003	30
Washington	169	4304	0.003	29
Massachusetts	173	4761	0.003	27

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

Classification and Origin of FIRTH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	38	1.22
Asian/Pacific	31	0.99
White (Hispanic)	29	0.93
Black/African American	13	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.29
White (Caucasian)	3,004	96.16

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

Similar names to FIRTH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FIRTH.

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.