The GAMES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,755	15360	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	418	11104	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+1337	-4256	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	20	52867	0	1
United Kingdom	197	16623	0	4

Top States for GAMES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	199	18570	0.001	6
Indiana	138	8258	0.002	23
Ohio	138	14659	0.001	12
Texas	118	19145	0.001	6
Kentucky	105	5947	0.003	26
Top States for GAMES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	89	3469	0.005	49
Kentucky	105	5947	0.003	26
Indiana	138	8258	0.002	23
Delaware	15	13567	0.002	19
Rhode Island	20	11136	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of GAMES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	987	56.24
White (Hispanic)	494	28.15
Black/African American	220	12.54
Asian/Pacific	26	1.48
Mixed Race	16	0.91
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.68

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

Similar names to GAMES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GAMES.

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.