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The GARNESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 308 61058 0 1
United States (1880 census) 30 63561 0 1
Change since 1880 +278 +2503 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 10 88576 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GARNESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 111 6587 0.002 23
Wisconsin 33 25104 0.001 6
South Dakota 32 3956 0.004 42
Alaska 19 4716 0.003 30
California 17 107891 0.000 1
Top States for GARNESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 32 3956 0.004 42
Alaska 19 4716 0.003 30
Minnesota 111 6587 0.002 23
Montana 13 11183 0.001 14
North Dakota 8 11938 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of GARNESS

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

Ethnic distribution of GARNESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 280 90.91
Mixed Race 16 5.19
Native American/Alaskan 5 1.62
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of GARNESS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARNESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARNESS.

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 GARNESS

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