The LIGGINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,468	8723	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	288	14733	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+3180	+6010	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	107	13486	0.001	7
United Kingdom	808	6221	0.002	18

Top States for LIGGINS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	304	7498	0.001	15
Tennessee	267	3429	0.005	47
California	263	11755	0.001	8
Michigan	232	6420	0.002	23
Illinois	203	7892	0.002	16
Top States for LIGGINS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	145	2875	0.005	51
Washington DC	27	2687	0.005	47
Tennessee	267	3429	0.005	47
Oklahoma	90	5670	0.003	26
Missouri	145	6061	0.003	26

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

Classification and Origin of LIGGINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	206	5.94
Mixed Race	124	3.58
White (Hispanic)	93	2.68
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.49
Asian/Pacific	10	0.29
Black/African American	3,018	87.02

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

Similar names to LIGGINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIGGINS.

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.