The HOLMES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	150,166	161	0.056	557
United States (1880 census)	36,943	130	0.074	739
Change since 1880	+113223	-31	-0.018	-182
Other Countries
Australia	8,992	129	0.055	550
United Kingdom	48,582	85	0.106	1,058

Top States for HOLMES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	10,513	287	0.031	310
Texas	10,399	233	0.050	499
Florida	9,338	168	0.058	584
New York	6,895	194	0.036	363
Georgia	6,670	128	0.081	815
Top States for HOLMES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	3,971	88	0.140	1,396
South Carolina	5,160	92	0.129	1,286
Washington DC	633	70	0.111	1,107
Alabama	4,709	121	0.106	1,059
Louisiana	4,537	109	0.102	1,015

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HOLMES

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 HOLMES 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 HOLMES 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 HOLMES in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	466	0.31
White (Caucasian)	88,928	59.22
Black/African American	54,841	36.52
Mixed Race	2,583	1.72
White (Hispanic)	2,252	1.5
Native American/Alaskan	1,096	0.73

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

Similar names to HOLMES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOLMES.

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.