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The IRWIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 34,374 930 0.013 127
United States (1880 census) 11,455 520 0.023 229
Change since 1880 +22919 -410 -0.01 -102
Other Countries
Australia 3,109 495 0.019 190
United Kingdom 7,223 863 0.016 157
Top States for IRWIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,146 1014 0.009 93
Pennsylvania 2,726 413 0.022 222
Texas 2,175 1141 0.010 104
Ohio 2,003 609 0.018 176
Florida 1,903 1054 0.012 119
Top States for IRWIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 199 641 0.025 254
Tennessee 1,323 659 0.023 233
Pennsylvania 2,726 413 0.022 222
Wyoming 97 535 0.020 196
Washington 1,094 594 0.019 186

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

Classification and Origin of IRWIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 739 2.15
White (Hispanic) 505 1.47
Mixed Race 450 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 227 0.66
Asian/Pacific 168 0.49
White (Caucasian) 32,284 93.92

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

Meaning of IRWIN in historical publications

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

Similar names to IRWIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as IRWIN.

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 IRWIN

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