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The GARNEAU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,372 18551 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 63 43302 0 1
Change since 1880 +1309 +24751 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GARNEAU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 242 3402 0.004 38
New Hampshire 132 1420 0.011 107
Florida 130 12977 0.001 8
Rhode Island 77 2014 0.007 73
Connecticut 75 5818 0.002 22
Top States for GARNEAU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 132 1420 0.011 107
Rhode Island 77 2014 0.007 73
Maine 75 2667 0.006 59
Vermont 29 3295 0.005 48
Delaware 30 4385 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 GARNEAU live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GARNEAU represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GARNEAU in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GARNEAU by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GARNEAU

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

Ethnic distribution of GARNEAU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 17 1.24
Native American/Alaskan 14 1.02
White (Hispanic) 11 0.8
White (Caucasian) 1,321 96.28
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GARNEAU in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARNEAU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARNEAU.

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 GARNEAU

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