The MORRIS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	311,754	56	0.116	1,156
United States (1880 census)	70,699	46	0.141	1,414
Change since 1880	+241055	-10	-0.025	-258
Other Countries
Australia	16,975	56	0.104	1,038
United Kingdom	89,900	34	0.196	1,957

Top States for MORRIS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	24,273	77	0.116	1,164
California	22,138	104	0.065	654
Florida	19,245	59	0.120	1,204
Ohio	14,891	42	0.131	1,312
Georgia	14,294	40	0.175	1,746
Top States for MORRIS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	2,048	23	0.261	2,614
South Carolina	8,427	45	0.210	2,100
Alabama	9,185	45	0.207	2,065
West Virginia	3,584	25	0.198	1,982
Oklahoma	6,451	37	0.187	1,870

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

Classification and Origin of MORRIS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	236,684	75.92
Black/African American	60,137	19.29
Mixed Race	5,300	1.7
White (Hispanic)	5,393	1.73
Native American/Alaskan	2,899	0.93
Asian/Pacific	1,341	0.43

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

Similar names to MORRIS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MORRIS.

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.