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The GUPPY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 325 58397 0 1
United States (1880 census) 131 26055 0 3
Change since 1880 +194 -32342 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 296 5287 0.002 18
United Kingdom 1,031 5143 0.002 22
Top States for GUPPY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 64 18316 0.001 5
Massachusetts 32 20433 0.001 5
Washington 32 19269 0.001 5
New York 31 49495 0.000 2
California 23 77359 0.000 1
Top States for GUPPY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 13 9198 0.001 10
New Hampshire 8 15800 0.001 6
Washington 32 19269 0.001 5
Illinois 64 18316 0.001 5
Massachusetts 32 20433 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of GUPPY

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 GUPPY 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 GUPPY 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 GUPPY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 269 82.77
Black/African American 28 8.62
Mixed Race 14 4.31
White (Hispanic) 8 2.46
Asian/Pacific 6 1.85
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

Meaning of GUPPY in historical publications

GUPPY. Perhaps O. Fr. goupil, a fox.

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 GUPPY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GUPPY.

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 GUPPY

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