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The FOMBY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,043 22910 0 4
United States (1880 census) 117 28245 0 2
Change since 1880 +926 +5335 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FOMBY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 345 2086 0.008 78
Texas 205 9211 0.001 10
Michigan 66 20008 0.001 7
Ohio 66 19967 0.001 6
California 62 36475 0.000 2
Top States for FOMBY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 345 2086 0.008 78
Texas 205 9211 0.001 10
Georgia 55 10967 0.001 7
Michigan 66 20008 0.001 7
Oklahoma 22 15162 0.001 6

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

Classification and Origin of FOMBY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOMBY 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.

Ethnic distribution of FOMBY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 599 57.43
White (Caucasian) 409 39.21
Mixed Race 18 1.73
White (Hispanic) 12 1.15
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of FOMBY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FOMBY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOMBY.

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 FOMBY

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