The FOOTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,093	2063	0.006	60
United States (1880 census)	4,691	1333	0.009	94
Change since 1880	+11402	-730	-0.003	-34
Other Countries
Australia	1,097	1513	0.007	67
United Kingdom	2,075	2870	0.005	45

Top States for FOOTE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,350	1376	0.007	71
California	1,328	2427	0.004	39
Michigan	931	1170	0.009	94
Florida	818	2577	0.005	51
Texas	725	3220	0.003	35
Top States for FOOTE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	324	574	0.026	262
Utah	350	881	0.016	157
Vermont	87	1276	0.014	143
Wyoming	69	813	0.014	140
Montana	105	1037	0.012	116

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

Classification and Origin of FOOTE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	296	1.84
White (Hispanic)	266	1.65
Mixed Race	253	1.57
Asian/Pacific	71	0.44
White (Caucasian)	13,383	83.16
Black/African American	1,825	11.34

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

Meaning of FOOTE in historical publications

(origin: Local) A place at the bottom of a hill or mountain, the base.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

FOOT. FOOTE. Probably from residence near the ' foot' of a mountain. This surname was hereditary from the time of the Conqueror. Among the undertenants of Domesday we have an Ei'uui Fot in Clieshire, and a Godwin Fot in Kent. The descendants of the latter gave the prefix to Foot's Cray. Fot is the common spelling in H.R.

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 FOOTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOOTE.

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.