The JENNINGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	87,038	321	0.032	323
United States (1880 census)	21,097	243	0.042	422
Change since 1880	+65941	-78	-0.01	-99
Other Countries
Australia	4,580	321	0.028	280
United Kingdom	19,622	283	0.043	427

Top States for JENNINGS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,742	362	0.032	323
California	5,751	558	0.017	170
Florida	4,920	359	0.031	308
Virginia	4,752	134	0.067	671
New York	3,663	430	0.019	193
Top States for JENNINGS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	3,289	157	0.082	820
Virginia	4,752	134	0.067	671
Tennessee	3,627	215	0.064	638
Missouri	3,525	156	0.063	630
Mississippi	1,580	261	0.056	555

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

Classification and Origin of JENNINGS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	487	0.56
Asian/Pacific	470	0.54
White (Caucasian)	63,868	73.38
Black/African American	19,462	22.36
Mixed Race	1,410	1.62
White (Hispanic)	1,332	1.53

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

Similar names to JENNINGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JENNINGS.

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.