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The GRAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 172 97848 0 1
United States (1880 census) 183 20585 0 4
Change since 1880 -11 -77263 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 8 105655 0 0
United Kingdom 329 11983 0.001 7
Top States for GRAIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 34 36625 0.000 3
California 21 96859 0.000 1
Florida 15 93318 0.000 1
Georgia 13 32442 0.000 2
Illinois 10 109987 0.000 1
Top States for GRAIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 34 36625 0.000 3
Nevada 4 62041 0.000 2
Georgia 13 32442 0.000 2
Maryland 6 70675 0.000 1
Louisiana 5 43734 0.000 1

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

Classification and Origin of GRAIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 108 62.79
Black/African American 57 33.14
Mixed Race 5 2.91
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of GRAIN in historical publications

GRAIN. GRAINE. An island-parisli of Kent.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GRAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRAIN.

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 GRAIN

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