The FISH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	24,612	1314	0.009	91
United States (1880 census)	10,135	592	0.02	203
Change since 1880	+14477	-722	-0.011	-112
Other Countries
Australia	723	2238	0.004	44
United Kingdom	5,502	1141	0.012	120

Top States for FISH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,043	879	0.011	108
California	1,946	1763	0.006	57
Florida	1,468	1471	0.009	92
Michigan	1,230	881	0.012	124
Pennsylvania	1,038	1463	0.008	85
Top States for FISH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	523	475	0.041	410
Vermont	149	695	0.024	245
New Hampshire	300	654	0.024	243
South Dakota	142	541	0.019	188
Minnesota	840	559	0.017	171

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

Classification and Origin of FISH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	431	1.75
Native American/Alaskan	416	1.69
White (Hispanic)	322	1.31
Mixed Race	320	1.3
Asian/Pacific	123	0.5
White (Caucasian)	23,000	93.45

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

Similar names to FISH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FISH.

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.