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The FOO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,167 20995 0 4
United States (1880 census) 217 18185 0 4
Change since 1880 +950 -2810 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 591 2741 0.004 36
United Kingdom 291 12970 0.001 6
Top States for FOO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 289 9231 0.001 9
New York 257 7636 0.001 14
New Jersey 77 12791 0.001 9
Florida 69 23604 0.000 4
Hawaii 54 1981 0.004 45
Top States for FOO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 54 1981 0.004 45
New York 257 7636 0.001 14
New Jersey 77 12791 0.001 9
California 289 9231 0.001 9
Washington DC 4 15363 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of FOO

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 937 80.29
Mixed Race 115 9.85
White (Caucasian) 77 6.6
Black/African American 25 2.14
White (Hispanic) 13 1.11
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

Meaning of FOO in historical publications

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

Similar names to FOO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOO.

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 FOO

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