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The FOOT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 449 44997 0 2
United States (1880 census) 2,548 2382 0.005 51
Change since 1880 -2099 -42615 +N/A -49
Other Countries
Australia 578 2809 0.004 35
United Kingdom 2,282 2639 0.005 50
Top States for FOOT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 63 35240 0.000 2
Michigan 33 36553 0.000 3
Arkansas 31 8194 0.001 12
Florida 26 55120 0.000 2
Utah 21 9640 0.001 9
Top States for FOOT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 18 8280 0.002 20
Arkansas 31 8194 0.001 12
Utah 21 9640 0.001 9
Alaska 4 26495 0.001 6
Maine 7 17261 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of FOOT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 354 78.84
Black/African American 46 10.24
White (Hispanic) 21 4.68
Mixed Race 12 2.67
Asian/Pacific 10 2.23
Native American/Alaskan 6 1.34

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

Meaning of FOOT in historical publications

FOOT.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FOOT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOOT.

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 FOOT

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