The MOST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,789	15125	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	269	15518	0.001	5
Change since 1880	+1520	+393	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	10	85245	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MOST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	176	9814	0.001	9
Michigan	167	6642	0.002	17
Florida	121	13205	0.001	8
Pennsylvania	118	11384	0.001	10
California	112	19088	0.000	3
Top States for MOST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	78	2680	0.005	46
Michigan	167	6642	0.002	17
Kansas	45	6636	0.002	17
Colorado	64	7743	0.001	15
Wisconsin	76	10367	0.001	14

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

Classification and Origin of MOST

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the MOST surname.

Ethnic distribution of MOST in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	35	1.96
White (Hispanic)	17	0.95
Native American/Alaskan	12	0.67
Asian/Pacific	11	0.61
Black/African American	5	0.28
White (Caucasian)	1,709	95.53

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

MOST is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Similar names to MOST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MOST.

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.