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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

'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?

Meaning of MOST in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MOST.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MOST

The following words are slight variants of MOST that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.