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The ISLAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 860 26642 0 3
United States (1880 census) 58 45677 0 1
Change since 1880 +802 +19035 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 1 315266 0 0
United Kingdom 26 27965 0 1
Top States for ISLAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 125 23048 0.000 4
Texas 97 18721 0.000 5
Louisiana 74 8035 0.002 17
Illinois 70 23573 0.001 6
Florida 60 32401 0.000 4
Top States for ISLAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Dakota 15 10781 0.002 20
Oklahoma 60 8183 0.002 17
Louisiana 74 8035 0.002 17
Arkansas 38 8235 0.001 14
Mississippi 38 7202 0.001 13

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

Classification and Origin of ISLAND

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 ISLAND 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 ISLAND 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 ISLAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 576 66.98
White (Caucasian) 173 20.12
Mixed Race 42 4.88
White (Hispanic) 34 3.95
Native American/Alaskan 27 3.14
Asian/Pacific 8 0.93

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

Meaning of ISLAND in historical publications

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

Similar names to ISLAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ISLAND.

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 ISLAND

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