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The GREENE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 119,604 228 0.044 443
United States (1880 census) 11,444 522 0.023 229
Change since 1880 +108160 +294 +0.021 +214
Other Countries
Australia 1,136 1448 0.007 69
United Kingdom 4,314 1461 0.009 94
Top States for GREENE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 11,562 54 0.144 1,436
Florida 8,854 171 0.055 554
New York 8,649 131 0.046 456
California 7,573 416 0.022 224
Georgia 6,160 136 0.075 752
Top States for GREENE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 11,562 54 0.144 1,436
South Carolina 5,000 90 0.125 1,246
Washington DC 587 71 0.103 1,026
Rhode Island 1,002 55 0.096 956
Tennessee 5,334 118 0.094 938

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

Classification and Origin of GREENE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 861 0.72
Asian/Pacific 466 0.39
White (Caucasian) 84,129 70.34
Black/African American 30,523 25.52
Mixed Race 2,069 1.73
White (Hispanic) 1,555 1.3

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

Meaning of GREENE in historical publications

GREENE. See Green.

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 GREENE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREENE.

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 GREENE

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