The MORISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	981	24007	0	4
United States (1880 census)	1,964	3022	0.004	39
Change since 1880	-983	-20985	+N/A	-35
Other Countries
Australia	500	3217	0.003	31
United Kingdom	561	8186	0.001	12

Top States for MORISON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	113	23332	0.000	3
Virginia	61	11786	0.001	9
Florida	57	31238	0.000	4
Massachusetts	57	15241	0.001	9
Michigan	49	28750	0.000	5
Top States for MORISON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	27	6681	0.002	21
Wyoming	8	10525	0.002	16
Vermont	9	10156	0.001	15
New Hampshire	16	11001	0.001	13
Colorado	45	13433	0.001	10

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

Classification and Origin of MORISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	840	85.63
Black/African American	62	6.32
White (Hispanic)	41	4.18
Mixed Race	23	2.34
Asian/Pacific	9	0.92
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.61

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

Similar names to MORISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MORISON.

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.