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The JANE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 766 29142 0 3
United States (1880 census) 309 13943 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +457 -15199 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 211 7162 0.001 13
United Kingdom 859 5936 0.002 19
Top States for JANE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 119 10018 0.001 7
California 70 21546 0.000 2
New York 53 22297 0.000 3
Michigan 52 15458 0.001 5
Illinois 45 18963 0.000 4
Top States for JANE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 119 10018 0.001 7
Maine 8 10552 0.001 6
Nebraska 10 15498 0.001 6
New Hampshire 7 12883 0.001 6
Michigan 52 15458 0.001 5

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

Classification and Origin of JANE

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 JANE 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 JANE 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 JANE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 501 65.4
White (Hispanic) 104 13.58
Black/African American 85 11.1
Asian/Pacific 50 6.53
Mixed Race 14 1.83
Native American/Alaskan 12 1.57

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

Meaning of JANE in historical publications

JANE. See Femaje Christian Names. It ma)'', however, be a corruption of the Fr. Jean, John.

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 JANE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JANE.

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 JANE

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