The GREIG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,497	11547	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	300	14267	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+2197	+2720	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	1,705	957	0.01	104
United Kingdom	5,393	1160	0.012	117

Top States for GREIG by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	238	5000	0.002	24
New York	215	8771	0.001	11
California	202	12305	0.001	6
Florida	146	12101	0.001	9
Texas	141	11695	0.001	7
Top States for GREIG by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	26	4232	0.004	40
Oregon	101	4259	0.003	30
Michigan	238	5000	0.002	24
Vermont	14	6161	0.002	23
Washington	135	5346	0.002	23

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

Classification and Origin of GREIG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	97	3.88
Mixed Race	51	2.04
White (Hispanic)	47	1.88
Asian/Pacific	22	0.88
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.48
White (Caucasian)	2,268	90.83

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

Similar names to GREIG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREIG.

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.