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The LOFTIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,518 4951 0.002 24
United States (1880 census) 956 5664 0.002 19
Change since 1880 +5562 +713 0 +5
Other Countries
Australia 6 129058 0 0
United Kingdom 15 29512 0 0
Top States for LOFTIS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 769 1575 0.010 96
Tennessee 755 1171 0.013 133
South Carolina 676 961 0.017 168
Texas 636 3561 0.003 31
California 427 6506 0.001 13
Top States for LOFTIS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 676 961 0.017 168
Tennessee 755 1171 0.013 133
North Carolina 769 1575 0.010 96
Arkansas 218 1656 0.008 82
Oklahoma 278 1711 0.008 81

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

Classification and Origin of LOFTIS

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 LOFTIS 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 LOFTIS 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 LOFTIS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 425 6.52
White (Hispanic) 97 1.49
Mixed Race 91 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 68 1.04
Asian/Pacific 26 0.4
White (Caucasian) 5,811 89.15

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

Meaning of LOFTIS in historical publications

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

Similar names to LOFTIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOFTIS.

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 LOFTIS

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