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The GREWAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,687 10876 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) -1 114245 0 0
Change since 1880 +2688 +103369 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 87 15993 0.001 5
United Kingdom 1,944 3039 0.004 42
Top States for GREWAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,383 2120 0.004 41
New Jersey 157 5812 0.002 19
Michigan 137 8415 0.001 14
Washington 122 5575 0.002 21
New York 106 16308 0.001 6
Top States for GREWAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,383 2120 0.004 41
Washington 122 5575 0.002 21
New Jersey 157 5812 0.002 19
Washington DC 8 6592 0.001 14
Michigan 137 8415 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of GREWAL

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GREWAL 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.

Ethnic distribution of GREWAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 176 6.55
White (Caucasian) 113 4.21
White (Hispanic) 27 1
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.67
Black/African American 5 0.19
Asian/Pacific 2,348 87.38

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

Meaning of GREWAL in historical publications

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

Similar names to GREWAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GREWAL.

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 GREWAL

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