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The JOB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,266 12542 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 835 6325 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +1431 -6217 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 547 2958 0.003 33
United Kingdom 774 6422 0.002 17
Top States for JOB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 208 11676 0.001 6
New York 169 10799 0.001 9
Michigan 145 8237 0.001 15
Missouri 120 5702 0.002 21
North Dakota 109 682 0.017 170
Top States for JOB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 109 682 0.017 170
South Dakota 67 1454 0.009 89
Montana 70 1605 0.008 78
Idaho 51 3466 0.004 39
Missouri 120 5702 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of JOB

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 JOB 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 JOB 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 JOB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 172 7.59
Asian/Pacific 148 6.53
White (Hispanic) 71 3.13
Mixed Race 46 2.03
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.31
White (Caucasian) 1,822 80.41

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

Meaning of JOB in historical publications

JOB. The personal name, wlicnce also Jobson.

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 JOB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOB.

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 JOB

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