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The MALCOMB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 722 30516 0 3
United States (1880 census) 423 11009 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +299 -19507 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MALCOMB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 165 1668 0.009 91
California 58 39424 0.000 2
Indiana 52 13696 0.001 9
Ohio 42 30000 0.000 4
Louisiana 36 12306 0.001 8
Top States for MALCOMB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 165 1668 0.009 91
South Dakota 20 7297 0.003 26
North Dakota 9 12289 0.001 14
Montana 10 15195 0.001 11
Oregon 30 15029 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of MALCOMB

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

Ethnic distribution of MALCOMB in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 676 93.63
Black/African American 27 3.74
White (Hispanic) 10 1.39
Mixed Race 8 1.11
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of MALCOMB in historical publications

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

Similar names to MALCOMB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MALCOMB.

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 MALCOMB

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