The MUNRO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,551	4928	0.002	24
United States (1880 census)	851	6225	0.002	17
Change since 1880	+5700	+1297	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	5,628	246	0.034	344
United Kingdom	13,467	435	0.029	293

Top States for MUNRO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	701	3899	0.002	21
Michigan	589	1736	0.006	59
Florida	554	3381	0.003	35
New York	520	3393	0.003	27
Washington	410	1627	0.007	70
Top States for MUNRO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Montana	67	1610	0.007	74
Washington	410	1627	0.007	70
Vermont	40	2363	0.007	66
Michigan	589	1736	0.006	59
Massachusetts	363	2238	0.006	57

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

Classification and Origin of MUNRO

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

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 MUNRO 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 MUNRO 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 MUNRO in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	243	3.71
White (Hispanic)	158	2.41
Mixed Race	76	1.16
Native American/Alaskan	39	0.6
Asian/Pacific	22	0.34
White (Caucasian)	6,013	91.79

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

Similar names to MUNRO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MUNRO.

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.