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The FLORENCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,943 3652 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 1,545 3750 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +7398 +98 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 284 5468 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,033 5128 0.002 23
Top States for FLORENCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 746 1551 0.009 91
Florida 733 3068 0.005 46
Texas 727 3422 0.003 35
Kentucky 714 904 0.018 177
California 623 5012 0.002 18
Top States for FLORENCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 714 904 0.018 177
Utah 216 1535 0.010 97
Georgia 746 1551 0.009 91
Idaho 99 2021 0.008 77
Alabama 319 2272 0.007 72

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of FLORENCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 172 1.92
White (Hispanic) 163 1.82
Asian/Pacific 54 0.6
Native American/Alaskan 35 0.39
White (Caucasian) 5,512 61.63
Black/African American 3,007 33.62

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

Meaning of FLORENCE in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FLORENCE.

Similar names to FLORENCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLORENCE.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FLORENCE

The following words are slight variants of FLORENCE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.