The GARNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	72,052	403	0.027	267
United States (1880 census)	13,937	415	0.028	279
Change since 1880	+58115	+12	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	1,964	827	0.012	120
United Kingdom	13,244	447	0.029	288

Top States for GARNER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	7,114	346	0.034	341
North Carolina	5,225	187	0.065	649
Georgia	4,229	225	0.052	517
California	4,186	780	0.012	124
Alabama	4,141	143	0.093	931
Top States for GARNER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	4,141	143	0.093	931
Arkansas	2,121	141	0.079	793
Mississippi	2,169	180	0.076	762
Tennessee	3,976	199	0.070	699
North Carolina	5,225	187	0.065	649

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

Classification and Origin of GARNER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	425	0.59
Asian/Pacific	267	0.37
White (Caucasian)	53,419	74.14
Black/African American	15,844	21.99
Mixed Race	1,088	1.51
White (Hispanic)	1,009	1.4

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

Similar names to GARNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARNER.

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.