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The JOU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 538 38644 0 2
United States (1880 census) -1 147247 0 0
Change since 1880 +539 +108603 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 4 175378 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for JOU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 184 12882 0.001 5
New York 50 33381 0.000 3
Texas 45 27249 0.000 2
New Jersey 32 28969 0.000 4
Illinois 23 50799 0.000 2
Top States for JOU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 8 15431 0.001 6
Hawaii 7 15106 0.001 6
California 184 12882 0.001 5
Washington 23 27592 0.000 4
New Jersey 32 28969 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of JOU

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

Ethnic distribution of JOU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 502 93.31
White (Caucasian) 16 2.97
White (Hispanic) 9 1.67
Mixed Race 6 1.12
Black/African American 5 0.93
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of JOU in historical publications

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

Similar names to JOU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JOU.

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 JOU

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