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The GRISHAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,796 4768 0.003 25
United States (1880 census) 1,644 3533 0.003 33
Change since 1880 +5152 -1235 0 -8
Other Countries
Australia 1 318910 0 0
United Kingdom 8 31387 0 0
Top States for GRISHAM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 1,131 2123 0.005 54
Tennessee 761 1166 0.013 134
Mississippi 550 817 0.019 193
California 455 6163 0.001 13
Missouri 432 1675 0.008 77
Top States for GRISHAM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 550 817 0.019 193
Tennessee 761 1166 0.013 134
Arkansas 289 1238 0.011 108
Wyoming 48 1236 0.010 97
Alabama 360 1913 0.008 81

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

Classification and Origin of GRISHAM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 314 4.62
Mixed Race 132 1.94
White (Hispanic) 98 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 67 0.99
Asian/Pacific 25 0.37
White (Caucasian) 6,160 90.64

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

Meaning of GRISHAM in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRISHAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRISHAM.

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 GRISHAM

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