The FOSSUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,844	14771	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	88	34251	0	2
Change since 1880	+1756	+19480	+N/A	+5
Other Countries
Australia	1	304708	0	0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for FOSSUM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	403	1348	0.008	82
Wisconsin	203	3587	0.004	38
California	179	13350	0.001	5
Washington	119	5921	0.002	20
South Dakota	113	663	0.015	150
Top States for FOSSUM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	113	663	0.015	150
North Dakota	90	855	0.014	140
Minnesota	403	1348	0.008	82
Montana	52	2260	0.006	58
Wisconsin	203	3587	0.004	38

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

Classification and Origin of FOSSUM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the FOSSUM surname.

Ethnic distribution of FOSSUM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	29	1.57
Mixed Race	19	1.03
White (Hispanic)	18	0.98
Native American/Alaskan	14	0.76
Asian/Pacific	8	0.43
White (Caucasian)	1,756	95.23

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

FOSSUM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to FOSSUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOSSUM.

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.