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The NAPOLEON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,161 13005 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 170 21728 0 3
Change since 1880 +1991 +8723 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 7 114617 0 0
United Kingdom 25 28052 0 1
Top States for NAPOLEON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 314 7124 0.002 17
Florida 283 7828 0.002 18
New Jersey 219 5129 0.003 26
California 167 16670 0.000 5
Illinois 134 11485 0.001 11
Top States for NAPOLEON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 87 1413 0.007 72
Alaska 20 5617 0.003 32
New Jersey 219 5129 0.003 26
Louisiana 107 5568 0.002 24
Florida 283 7828 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of NAPOLEON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 841 38.92
White (Caucasian) 748 34.61
White (Hispanic) 178 8.24
Asian/Pacific 168 7.77
Mixed Race 154 7.13
Native American/Alaskan 72 3.33

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

Meaning of NAPOLEON in historical publications

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

Similar names to NAPOLEON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NAPOLEON.

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 NAPOLEON

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