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The GARRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,151 4553 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 701 7339 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +6450 +2786 +0.002 +12
Other Countries
Australia 4 184288 0 0
United Kingdom 2 35482 0 0
Top States for GARRIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,592 842 0.020 198
South Carolina 679 1106 0.017 169
Pennsylvania 500 3469 0.004 41
Virginia 479 2172 0.007 68
Florida 372 6037 0.002 23
Top States for GARRIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 1,592 842 0.020 198
South Carolina 679 1106 0.017 169
Virginia 479 2172 0.007 68
Washington DC 30 2236 0.005 52
Wyoming 22 3397 0.004 45

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

Classification and Origin of GARRIS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 142 1.99
Mixed Race 101 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 35 0.49
Asian/Pacific 19 0.27
White (Caucasian) 5,212 72.88
Black/African American 1,642 22.96

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

Meaning of GARRIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to GARRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARRIS.

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 GARRIS

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