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The INGLIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,572 11282 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 490 9839 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +2082 -1443 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 1,878 872 0.011 115
United Kingdom 5,628 1107 0.012 123
Top States for INGLIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 292 8471 0.001 9
Florida 188 9175 0.001 12
New York 175 10107 0.001 9
Massachusetts 149 5168 0.002 23
Texas 143 11035 0.001 7
Top States for INGLIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 20 4227 0.003 32
New Hampshire 34 4510 0.003 28
Massachusetts 149 5168 0.002 23
Idaho 29 5899 0.002 22
Vermont 13 6211 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of INGLIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 55 2.14
Mixed Race 49 1.91
Black/African American 34 1.32
Asian/Pacific 17 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.35
White (Caucasian) 2,408 93.62

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

Meaning of INGLIS in historical publications

INGLIS. The old Scottish form of ' English,' formerly api:)lied to the descendants of Englislmaeu settled in Scotland, especially of prisoners taken by Malcolm III. from the northern counties in 1070. For years after that date, we are told, English servants or slaves were to be found in every village, and almost in every house. Singularly enough, the baronet familj'', though of Scottish origin, deduce from William Inglis, who had, in 1395, a grant of lands and this surname from Robert III., for killing an Englishman on the borders — Anglus ah Anylum occidciido ; truly as odd an origin as surname ever had !

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 INGLIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as INGLIS.

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 INGLIS

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