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The GRISSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 391 50261 0 1
United States (1880 census) 290 14652 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +101 -35609 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for GRISSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 43 14451 0.001 5
Florida 34 49449 0.000 2
Texas 33 40251 0.000 2
Pennsylvania 32 49041 0.000 3
California 30 77334 0.000 1
Top States for GRISSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 4 15660 0.001 7
New Hampshire 8 20548 0.001 6
Georgia 43 14451 0.001 5
North Carolina 29 18962 0.000 4
Virginia 22 27049 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of GRISSON

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the GRISSON surname.

Ethnic distribution of GRISSON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 201 51.41
White (Caucasian) 175 44.76
Mixed Race 6 1.53
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
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 GRISSON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

GRISSON is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of GRISSON in historical publications

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

Similar names to GRISSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GRISSON.

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 GRISSON

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