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The INGERSOLL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,344 5073 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 2,265 2677 0.005 45
Change since 1880 +4079 -2396 -0.003 -21
Other Countries
Australia 32 36382 0 2
United Kingdom 15 29574 0 0
Top States for INGERSOLL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 611 1775 0.006 61
New York 583 3225 0.003 31
California 571 4891 0.002 17
Florida 310 6153 0.002 19
Illinois 306 4123 0.002 25
Top States for INGERSOLL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 115 1944 0.009 90
Michigan 611 1775 0.006 61
Utah 114 2495 0.005 51
Iowa 148 2594 0.005 51
Washington 294 2453 0.005 50

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

Classification and Origin of INGERSOLL

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 INGERSOLL 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 INGERSOLL 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 INGERSOLL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 128 2.02
Black/African American 126 1.99
Mixed Race 89 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 47 0.74
Asian/Pacific 33 0.52
White (Caucasian) 5,921 93.33

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

Meaning of INGERSOLL in historical publications

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

Similar names to INGERSOLL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as INGERSOLL.

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 INGERSOLL

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