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The IMPERIAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,353 18748 0 5
United States (1880 census) 14 81906 0 0
Change since 1880 +1339 +63158 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 23 46585 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for IMPERIAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 423 7718 0.001 12
New York 134 16809 0.001 7
Texas 114 16068 0.001 5
New Jersey 89 13200 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 74 22923 0.001 6
Top States for IMPERIAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 68 4155 0.003 34
California 423 7718 0.001 12
Arizona 63 10535 0.001 12
New Jersey 89 13200 0.001 11
Washington DC 6 11914 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of IMPERIAL

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

Ethnic distribution of IMPERIAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 449 33.19
Asian/Pacific 445 32.89
White (Hispanic) 359 26.53
Mixed Race 71 5.25
Black/African American 21 1.55
Native American/Alaskan 8 0.59

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

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

Meaning of IMPERIAL in historical publications

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

Similar names to IMPERIAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IMPERIAL.

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 IMPERIAL

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