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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

'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?

Meaning of FOSSUM in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FOSSUM

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