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The FOSSETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,753 15369 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 667 7656 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1086 -7713 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 18 57172 0 1
United Kingdom 260 13951 0.001 6
Top States for FOSSETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 145 12844 0.001 7
Georgia 133 6148 0.002 16
Maine 130 1986 0.010 102
Alabama 117 4732 0.003 26
California 96 26518 0.000 3
Top States for FOSSETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 130 1986 0.010 102
Wyoming 13 6086 0.003 26
Alabama 117 4732 0.003 26
Maryland 88 7366 0.002 17
Georgia 133 6148 0.002 16

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

Classification and Origin of FOSSETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 376 21.45
White (Hispanic) 34 1.94
Mixed Race 25 1.43
Asian/Pacific 7 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.34
White (Caucasian) 1,305 74.44

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

Meaning of FOSSETT in historical publications

FOSSETT. The same as Fawcett and Forsvth, which see.

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 FOSSETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOSSETT.

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 FOSSETT

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