The MAJOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,791	1659	0.007	73
United States (1880 census)	4,058	1521	0.008	81
Change since 1880	+15733	-138	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	1,337	1227	0.008	82
United Kingdom	5,317	1172	0.012	116

Top States for MAJOR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,703	1333	0.011	107
California	1,203	2855	0.004	36
New York	1,109	1804	0.006	58
Louisiana	1,082	654	0.024	242
Pennsylvania	1,057	1505	0.009	86
Top States for MAJOR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,082	654	0.024	242
South Carolina	968	733	0.024	241
Rhode Island	195	826	0.019	186
Delaware	113	1354	0.014	144
Vermont	82	1458	0.013	135

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

Classification and Origin of MAJOR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	386	1.95
White (Hispanic)	327	1.65
Asian/Pacific	85	0.43
Native American/Alaskan	85	0.43
White (Caucasian)	12,542	63.37
Black/African American	6,367	32.17

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

Similar names to MAJOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MAJOR.

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.