The MILES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	81,933	342	0.03	304
United States (1880 census)	21,131	240	0.042	423
Change since 1880	+60802	-102	-0.012	-119
Other Countries
Australia	4,976	282	0.03	304
United Kingdom	22,008	247	0.048	479

Top States for MILES by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	6,304	402	0.030	302
California	5,669	581	0.017	167
Florida	4,333	445	0.027	271
New York	3,524	470	0.019	186
Georgia	3,493	283	0.043	427
Top States for MILES by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	3,230	166	0.081	805
Alabama	2,902	237	0.065	653
Kentucky	2,468	221	0.061	611
Washington DC	349	155	0.061	610
Mississippi	1,556	273	0.055	547

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

Classification and Origin of MILES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	664	0.81
Asian/Pacific	352	0.43
White (Caucasian)	52,118	63.61
Black/African American	26,055	31.8
Mixed Race	1,442	1.76
White (Hispanic)	1,303	1.59

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

Similar names to MILES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MILES.

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.