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The JANUARY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,347 12168 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 519 9360 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +1828 -2808 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 8 107312 0 0
United Kingdom 91 24431 0 2
Top States for JANUARY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 388 5440 0.002 19
Louisiana 274 2302 0.006 61
California 254 10621 0.001 7
Oklahoma 134 3565 0.004 39
Illinois 115 12081 0.001 9
Top States for JANUARY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 274 2302 0.006 61
Oklahoma 134 3565 0.004 39
Mississippi 79 3962 0.003 28
Alabama 85 5520 0.002 19
Texas 388 5440 0.002 19

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

Classification and Origin of JANUARY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the JANUARY surname.

Ethnic distribution of JANUARY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 89 3.79
Mixed Race 76 3.24
Black/African American 1,073 45.72
White (Caucasian) 1,090 46.44
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

JANUARY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of JANUARY in historical publications

JANUARY. Not from the montli, but an anglicized form of the Latin personal name Jannarius.

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 JANUARY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JANUARY.

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 JANUARY

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