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The MASSIE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,525 3143 0.004 39
United States (1880 census) 2,106 2843 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +8419 -300 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 273 5682 0.002 17
United Kingdom 1,624 3503 0.004 35
Top States for MASSIE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 1,847 736 0.016 163
Virginia 1,121 846 0.016 158
Texas 752 3262 0.004 36
California 665 4646 0.002 20
Florida 500 4357 0.003 31
Top States for MASSIE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 330 901 0.018 182
Ohio 1,847 736 0.016 163
Virginia 1,121 846 0.016 158
Kentucky 300 2001 0.007 74
Wyoming 35 1952 0.007 71

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

Classification and Origin of MASSIE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 183 1.74
Mixed Race 174 1.65
Asian/Pacific 49 0.47
Native American/Alaskan 38 0.36
White (Caucasian) 8,814 83.74
Black/African American 1,267 12.04

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

Meaning of MASSIE in historical publications

MASSIE. A great Cheshire family, of whom, from their numerousness,theproverb, however imcomplimentary, runs —

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MASSIE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MASSIE.

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 MASSIE

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