The FRANCIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	71,723	406	0.027	266
United States (1880 census)	13,212	448	0.026	264
Change since 1880	+58511	+42	+0.001	+2
Other Countries
Australia	7,455	170	0.046	456
United Kingdom	29,157	170	0.063	635

Top States for FRANCIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	6,585	201	0.035	347
Florida	6,165	281	0.039	386
Texas	5,093	487	0.024	244
California	5,074	629	0.015	150
Ohio	3,860	296	0.034	340
Top States for FRANCIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	3,070	176	0.069	687
Rhode Island	519	176	0.050	495
Vermont	280	278	0.046	460
Utah	917	268	0.041	411
Missouri	2,177	268	0.039	389

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

Classification and Origin of FRANCIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	932	1.3
White (Caucasian)	45,824	63.89
Black/African American	19,774	27.57
Mixed Race	1,750	2.44
Native American/Alaskan	1,492	2.08
White (Hispanic)	1,951	2.72

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

Similar names to FRANCIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRANCIS.

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.