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The HARRISS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,188 20693 0 4
United States (1880 census) 3,478 1756 0.007 70
Change since 1880 -2290 -18937 +N/A -66
Other Countries
Australia 323 4873 0.002 20
United Kingdom 697 6933 0.002 15
Top States for HARRISS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Illinois 150 11195 0.001 12
Texas 144 14009 0.001 7
North Carolina 119 7380 0.001 15
California 100 28306 0.000 3
Florida 94 22068 0.001 6
Top States for HARRISS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 119 7380 0.001 15
Illinois 150 11195 0.001 12
Delaware 7 20793 0.001 9
Maryland 40 16623 0.001 8
Virginia 50 14747 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of HARRISS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 982 82.66
Black/African American 181 15.24
White (Hispanic) 11 0.93
Mixed Race 8 0.67
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HARRISS in historical publications

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

Similar names to HARRISS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARRISS.

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 HARRISS

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