The MORRISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	117,939	231	0.044	437
United States (1880 census)	29,003	172	0.058	580
Change since 1880	+88936	-59	-0.014	-143
Other Countries
Australia	8,562	134	0.052	524
United Kingdom	32,103	149	0.07	699

Top States for MORRISON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	8,866	353	0.026	262
Texas	7,780	306	0.037	373
Florida	7,476	221	0.047	468
Ohio	6,112	164	0.054	538
Pennsylvania	5,819	158	0.047	474
Top States for MORRISON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,289	127	0.101	1,011
West Virginia	1,509	125	0.083	834
Alaska	448	108	0.071	715
North Carolina	5,717	159	0.071	710
New Hampshire	836	137	0.068	676

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

Classification and Origin of MORRISON

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 MORRISON 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 MORRISON 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 MORRISON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	590	0.5
White (Caucasian)	96,333	81.68
Black/African American	16,276	13.8
Mixed Race	1,887	1.6
Native American/Alaskan	1,097	0.93
White (Hispanic)	1,769	1.5

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

Similar names to MORRISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MORRISON.

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.