The ISLAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,967	5369	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	-1	112927	0	0
Change since 1880	+5968	+107558	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	175	8512	0.001	11
United Kingdom	4,536	1379	0.01	99

Top States for ISLAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,129	795	0.011	112
California	496	5721	0.001	15
Texas	409	5081	0.002	20
Florida	339	5842	0.002	21
New Jersey	311	3101	0.004	37
Top States for ISLAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	2,129	795	0.011	112
Delaware	35	3922	0.004	45
Virginia	308	2870	0.004	44
New Jersey	311	3101	0.004	37
Connecticut	122	3778	0.004	36

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

Classification and Origin of ISLAM

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: Bangladesh

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of ISLAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	700	11.73
Black/African American	376	6.3
White (Caucasian)	273	4.58
White (Hispanic)	87	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	28	0.47
Asian/Pacific	4,503	75.47

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

Similar names to ISLAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ISLAM.

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.