The FOLGER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,196	12845	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	1,033	5312	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+1163	-7533	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	4	180374	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for FOLGER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	189	13219	0.001	6
New York	159	11984	0.001	8
Massachusetts	156	5338	0.002	25
Ohio	136	9766	0.001	12
Florida	123	14241	0.001	8
Top States for FOLGER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	63	3187	0.005	49
Washington DC	15	3712	0.003	26
Massachusetts	156	5338	0.002	25
Alaska	13	7789	0.002	21
Vermont	12	7178	0.002	20

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

Classification and Origin of FOLGER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FOLGER surname.

Ethnic distribution of FOLGER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	50	2.28
White (Hispanic)	43	1.96
Black/African American	27	1.23
Mixed Race	18	0.82
Asian/Pacific	7	0.32
White (Caucasian)	2,051	93.4

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

FOLGER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to FOLGER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOLGER.

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.